Full Text of SR0512 95th General Assembly
SR0512 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 Arnette Harmon Moseberry of Chicago, who | 4 |
| passed away December 22, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, She was born June 27, 1927, in Holly Springs, | 6 |
| Mississippi to the late Louis Harmon Sr. and Mary James Harmon; | 7 |
| at an early age she began attending Ebenezer Baptist Church, | 8 |
| where she accepted Jesus Christ into her life; as an adult she | 9 |
| worshipped at Greater Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church; | 10 |
| she converted to Catholicism and became a member of St. | 11 |
| Laurence Catholic Church and the Women of St. Laurence until | 12 |
| its closure; she then attended St. Ailbe Catholic Church; and
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| WHEREAS, She was educated at Forrestville Elementary | 14 |
| School and DuSable High School; on February 25, 1947 she was | 15 |
| united in marriage to William Moseberry Jr.; and
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| WHEREAS, She was a loyal employee of Oscar Mayer for twenty | 17 |
| years; after her retirement she worked for Eyes Around the | 18 |
| World Travel Agency, and traveled around the world; she was an | 19 |
| avid golfer; she was a member of the WASS Auxiliary (an | 20 |
| affiliate of the Chicago Boys Club), the Midwest Golf | 21 |
| Association, and the Chicago Women's Golf Club, where she | 22 |
| served as junior tournament director for the Bob-O-Links; in |
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| addition, she taught children and teens the sport of golf; and
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| WHEREAS, Arnette Harmon Moseberry was preceded in death by | 3 |
| her parents, her husband, her daughter, Pamela, and six | 4 |
| siblings; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Arnette Harmon Moseberry will be | 6 |
| deeply felt by her son, Melvin; her daughters, Jacqueline, | 7 |
| Nola, Charmaine, Doris, and Valerie; her brother, Ervin; her | 8 |
| sisters, Villire, Yvonne, and Patsy (Calvin); her seventeen | 9 |
| grandchildren; her twenty great-grandchildren; her three | 10 |
| great-great-grandchildren; her life-long friends, Corrine and | 11 |
| Johnetta; and many other relatives and friends; therefore, be | 12 |
| it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 14 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 15 |
| her family and friends, the passing of Arnette Harmon | 16 |
| Moseberry; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 |
| presented to the family of Arnette Harmon Moseberry as a symbol | 19 |
| of our sympathy.
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