Full Text of SR0554 096th General Assembly
SR0554 96TH 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 Reverend Jodie A. Luster, Jr. of | 4 |
| Centreville, who passed away on October 27, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born on July 28, 1928 to Jodie A. Luster, | 6 |
| Sr. and Adellar Mitchell in Houston, Mississippi; he accepted | 7 |
| Christ at an early age at New Zion Baptist Church, under the | 8 |
| leadership of Reverend Robinson; he attended Parnell | 9 |
| Elementary School and Houston High School; and
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| WHEREAS, As a young man he moved to Webster Groves, | 11 |
| Missouri, and later Centreville; in 1950 he married Geneva | 12 |
| Collins and together they had six children; he was a thirty-one | 13 |
| year employee of Hunter Packing Company until his retirement; | 14 |
| he was also an automobile salesman, owner of Luster's Car Wash | 15 |
| and Luster's Wrecking and Excavating; and
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| WHEREAS, He served on the Board of Education in | 17 |
| Centreville, as a member of the Centreville Volunteer Fire | 18 |
| Department in the 1950s and 1960s, as a Centreville Alderman, | 19 |
| and as a member of the Cahokia Water Company Board of Directors | 20 |
| for the last eight years; and
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| WHEREAS, He was a minister at Calvary Missionary Baptist |
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| Church, founded by his father, Jodie Luster, Sr.; he held | 2 |
| Saturday morning prayer service no matter what the weather; and
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| WHEREAS, Reverend Jodie A. Luster, Jr. is survived by his | 4 |
| wife, Geneva; his sons, Flinn (Brenda), Kerry (Susan Swope), | 5 |
| Lardez, and Marcus (Connie); his daughters, Sheila (Will) | 6 |
| Croom, Tawana (Charlie) Moore, and Renee Givens; his sisters, | 7 |
| Elvira Wright, Ruthie Mae (Jasper) Montgomery, and Esteria | 8 |
| Thompson; his brothers, Charles Lee (Betty) and Larry (Breck); | 9 |
| his godson, Raphal Wright; his twenty-seven grandchildren; | 10 |
| forty-five great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, | 11 |
| cousins, other relatives, and friends; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 13 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 14 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Reverend Jodie A. | 15 |
| Luster, Jr.; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 |
| presented to the family of Reverend Jodie A. Luster, Jr. as a | 18 |
| symbol of our sincere sympathy.
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