Full Text of SR0471 95th General Assembly
SR0471 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of
Loice Woods, who passed away on December | 4 |
| 5, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Loice Woods was born on November 17, 1933 in | 6 |
| Tunica, Mississippi; he was the seventh of twelve children born | 7 |
| to Bill and Irene Woods; and
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| WHEREAS, Loice Woods began working with his family in the | 9 |
| fields as a sharecropper at the age of 2; he professed his | 10 |
| belief in Christ as a young boy at the Oak Grove MB Church; he | 11 |
| relocated to Detroit, Michigan as a young man, living with his | 12 |
| older brother Warren to attend school; he later rejoined his | 13 |
| family in Blytheville, Arkansas, where he met and married the | 14 |
| love of his life, Pearlene Claybrooks; together, they had 6 | 15 |
| children; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1959, Loice Woods became employed with the | 17 |
| Harris Hub Company in Harvey; he worked for the Harris Hub | 18 |
| Company until 1968, when he began working for the Chicago | 19 |
| Transit Authority as a rail janitor; he retired from the | 20 |
| Chicago Transit Authority in 1993 after 28 years of dedicated | 21 |
| service, garnering a sterling reputation as a hard worker who | 22 |
| never missed a day of work; and
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| WHEREAS, After the untimely death of his wife in 1968, it | 2 |
| fell upon Loice Woods to take care of his family alone, a task | 3 |
| he performed with great success; he will be remembered by his | 4 |
| family as a loving and dedicated father who would do anything | 5 |
| to make sure that his children had what they needed, no matter | 6 |
| the cost; and
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| WHEREAS, Loice Woods also enjoyed coaching Little League | 8 |
| Baseball teams in the Altgeld Community during the early years | 9 |
| of his children's lives, as well as acting as a father figure | 10 |
| to the children who gathered at the Woods' home; and | 11 |
| WHEREAS, Loice Woods was preceded in death by his parents, | 12 |
| Bill and Irene; his loving wife, Pearlene; his brothers, | 13 |
| Richard and Warren; and his sisters, Willie May Christian, | 14 |
| Charlene, Hannah Sloan, and Priscilla Rayford; and | 15 |
| WHEREAS, Loice Woods is survived by his children, Loisteen | 16 |
| Walker (Enrico), William (Doretha), Donald (Linda), Dalton, | 17 |
| Herrod (Angela), and Phyllis; his surrogate son, Bryant Simmons | 18 |
| (Kim); his sisters, Ernestine Harris, Lucy Woods, and Irene | 19 |
| Tyler; his brothers, William and Elmer; his brothers-in-law, | 20 |
| Joe Willie Claybrooks (Doll), Eldorado Claybrooks, Jackie | 21 |
| Claybrooks, and James Claybrooks; his sisters-in-law, Evelyn | 22 |
| Hinton (Eddie) and Glendora Claybrooks; his 20 grandchildren |
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| and 29 great-grandchildren; his 41 step-grandchildren and | 2 |
| step-great-grandchildren; and his many nephews, nieces, other | 3 |
| relatives, and friends; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 5 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 6 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Loice Woods; and be it | 7 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 9 |
| presented to the family of Loice Woods as an expression of our | 10 |
| sympathy.
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