Full Text of HR0626 96th General Assembly
HR0626 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to congratulate the 2009 inductees | 4 |
| into the Jefferson County Senior Saints Hall of Fame; and
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| WHEREAS, Lillie Florence was born August 28, 1928, the 12th | 6 |
| child of 13 born to Alva
Jake and Bessie Beal in Jefferson | 7 |
| County; she married Harry E.
Arnett, her one and only true | 8 |
| love, on July 20, 1946, and they had six
children, ten | 9 |
| grandchildren, and so far thirteen great-grandchildren; her | 10 |
| first job was at Woolworth and she later worked at Cummings | 11 |
| Orchard, Dix
General Store, and Field Grade School; during her | 12 |
| children's school years
she was involved in Field school PTA, | 13 |
| 4-H, and home extension; she served
as a Field Township Trustee | 14 |
| for 16 years, and an Election judge for 20
years; she has also | 15 |
| helped out with many fundraisers and has participated in the
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| Jefferson County Relay for Life; she was head cook for the King | 17 |
| City Saddle
Club for many years, and was a member of the Dixico | 18 |
| Ruritian Club;
the King City Saddle Club presented Lillie with | 19 |
| a silver platter for her
many years of service; Lillie's | 20 |
| hobbies include quilting, gardening,
embroidery, and cooking; | 21 |
| a good life saying for Lillie is "When life serves
you lemons, | 22 |
| make lemonade"; and
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| WHEREAS, Donald Bigham was born in Mt. Vernon on December |
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| 6, 1937, to Randal and Loraine
Bigham; he has two younger | 2 |
| sisters, Kaye and Connie; his family attended
church at 2nd | 3 |
| Baptist and he went to Edison Grade School; in 1953 he went to
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| Mt. Vernon High School, where he enjoyed school, worked behind | 5 |
| the stage in the
school plays, and served as helper, earning | 6 |
| his high school service
letter; he also met his wife, Donna K. | 7 |
| Sigwerth; he graduated in 1956 and was employed by Western | 8 |
| Electric Company; he traveled around the area working in | 9 |
| telephone offices; after Donna graduated from high school they | 10 |
| were married; soon their family
grew and they had three little | 11 |
| girls and relocated back to Mt. Vernon; he
sold insurance for | 12 |
| Mutual of Omaha and then went to adjusting for
another company; | 13 |
| the family moved to Rockford, where he
again changed positions | 14 |
| and started work for the J.C. Penny Company; he was
later | 15 |
| promoted to a district position in Chicago and from there to
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| Milwaukee, Wisconsin; he had several great years there, and | 17 |
| became
interested in firefighting and EMS services; he trained | 18 |
| and qualified as an
EMT and a volunteer firefighter; after 10 | 19 |
| years working with the J.C. Penny
Company, he was offered an | 20 |
| early retirement and the family moved back to Mt. Vernon and | 21 |
| joined the Park Avenue Baptist Church; he became a mission | 22 |
| service corps volunteer and started building the local
disaster | 23 |
| relief services; he became a member of the LEPC group and the
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| Jefferson County Iraqi Warriors, supporting the troops; he | 25 |
| applied for
chaplain training and was approved to serve as an | 26 |
| on-call Chaplain for both
Crossroads Community Hospital and St. |
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| Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital; he still enjoys his work in the | 2 |
| community, church, and disaster relief services; and
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| WHEREAS, Pat Davis was born July 13, 1932 in Nashville, | 4 |
| Tennessee, to Allan and Aline Quinn; she has 3 sisters and a | 5 |
| brother; her family later moved to
High Point, North Carolina, | 6 |
| and eventually to Mt. Vernon; she attended Mt.
Vernon High | 7 |
| School, where she enjoyed basketball and baseball; she later | 8 |
| left
school, as many people did at the time, to work at | 9 |
| Murphy's 5-and-10-cent
store, being paid $5-6 dollars per week, | 10 |
| and worked there for 8 years; she met Marvin Davis when she was | 11 |
| 16; they dated a year and a half before
getting married on June | 12 |
| 18, 1949, and have enjoyed marital bliss for 60
years; they | 13 |
| have 5 children, Rhonda (deceased), Allen, Marla, Jeri, and
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| Marty and are the proud grandparents of 13 grandchildren (1 | 15 |
| deceased) and 10
great-grandchildren; her and her husband | 16 |
| worked side-by-side for 34
years as owners of Davis Service, a | 17 |
| gas station and auto repair shop; she volunteered for years at | 18 |
| the AmVets and Rend Lake's
Wayne Fitzgerald State Park and is | 19 |
| currently with Kids Hope United's Foster
Grandparent program; | 20 |
| through the Foster Grandparent Program, she has volunteered
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| Bethel and McClellan schools and is currently helping at | 22 |
| Angel's Cove; she is a lifetime member at AmVets and is active | 23 |
| in Crossroad's Senior Circle
and in the Senior Circle | 24 |
| Stitchers; the Davis door has always been open to those in | 25 |
| need, whether it be
family or friends; she cherishes all |
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| contact she has with children, whether they are little or big, | 2 |
| so much that she always has a
pocketful of Tootsie rolls and | 3 |
| mints; her motto is "Kid's are the spice of
life, and I love | 4 |
| spice!"; and
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| WHEREAS, Paul Dickerson was born April 1, 1926, on a small | 6 |
| farm a mile north of Bridgeport; he was the second of five | 7 |
| children to John and Marie Dickerson; his family
then moved to | 8 |
| Lawrenceville; during his junior year of high school,
America | 9 |
| joined World War II and soon after, he quit school and enlisted | 10 |
| in the
United States Navy; he was eventually sent overseas and | 11 |
| honorably discharged less than
two years later; he then signed | 12 |
| up for college on the G.I. Bill and assigned
to major in | 13 |
| Business Administration;
Mary was born in Cairo, to Joe and | 14 |
| Elois Flamm, the second of two
daughters; she went to St. | 15 |
| Patrick's Catholic School and then Cairo Public
High School; | 16 |
| she was active in school plays in high school and was the
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| student radio reporter for the school; her senior year she was | 18 |
| chosen by the
Daughter's Of the American Revolution for The | 19 |
| Good Citizenship Award; Mary
was also a member of the Girl | 20 |
| Scouts throughout the 10th grade; she worked
at a local movie | 21 |
| theater and then later a ladies ready-to-wear store; after
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| graduating high school she went to Carbondale to Southern | 23 |
| Illinois University;
Paul and Mary met while Mary was in | 24 |
| Lawrenceville visiting a former
neighbor who was the librarian | 25 |
| at Paul's high school; they then met again at
a Catholic Youth |
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| Group and the Newman Club at college; they were married
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| November 26, 1949, and had seven children; they moved to Mt. | 3 |
| Vernon in 1953
and are blessed with 16 grandchildren; since | 4 |
| then, Paul has been an Exploring Scout Master of Post 101; in | 5 |
| 1968, he
was chosen as Father of the Year by the King City | 6 |
| Retailers; he was a member
of the Lion's Club, the Rotary West, | 7 |
| and served on the Good Samaritan
Hospital's Board of | 8 |
| Associates; as a member of the Good Samaritan's
Auxiliary, Paul | 9 |
| served as president for two terms and accrued over 1500
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| volunteer hours; he was elected to the County Board and served | 11 |
| 12 years; in
1984, he was the Jefferson County Chamber of | 12 |
| Commerce's Citizen of the Year;
Mary was a stay-at-home mom | 13 |
| until their youngest child was three; she then
enrolled in RN | 14 |
| school at Kaskaskia College in 1972; she graduated in 1974
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| started working in the ICU at Good Samaritan Hospital; in 1975 | 16 |
| Mary
transferred to the Home Health Department and continued | 17 |
| night studies toward
a Bachelors Degree in Nursing; in 1977 she | 18 |
| was promoted from Staff Nurse to
Assistant Director of Good | 19 |
| Samaritan's Home Health Department; in 1984 she
was the | 20 |
| Business and Professional Woman's Club Woman of the Year; she | 21 |
| also
served on the Advisory Council for Senior Citizens in | 22 |
| Jefferson County, on
the Board of Comprehensive Services of | 23 |
| Jefferson County, and was a member of
the Jefferson County | 24 |
| Diabetic Board; Mary is presently serving on the board
of SSM | 25 |
| Hospice and Home Health Care Foundation;
Paul and Mary are | 26 |
| members of St. Mary's Church and are very active in all
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| activities; faith is a very important part of their lives, as | 2 |
| is their
family; and
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| WHEREAS, Bern Dickneite
is the oldest child of Ben and | 4 |
| Frances Dickneite, born on June 9, 1942; he was later joined by | 5 |
| five siblings, two sisters, and three brothers; he grew up
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| St. Louis South County, Missouri; after completion of 12 years | 7 |
| of
parochial education he entered the military and while | 8 |
| serving on active duty
from 1960 to 1964 earned the rank of Cpl | 9 |
| E-4; he was honorably discharged in
1966; he then became | 10 |
| employed in retail and construction, and with the help
of the | 11 |
| GI Bill entered college, earning a B.S. Degree in Business
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| Administration with a major in Accounting; in 1963 he met a | 13 |
| young college student, Diana J. Summa, who on January 21,
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| became Mrs. Diana J. Dickneite; they have two children, Bernard | 15 |
| "Brad"
Dickneite and Andrea Barrett, and have seven | 16 |
| grandchildren; upon graduating from the University of | 17 |
| Missouri, he was employed by Haskin &
Sells, CPA firm, and then | 18 |
| later was employed by the National Dealers of Farm
Equipment | 19 |
| Association as manager of Data Control; in August of 1980 they | 20 |
| moved to
Mt. Vernon to open a Bicycle Fitness Center; he | 21 |
| retired in 2007; he is active in bicycling in organized charity | 22 |
| rides, and is presently a
board member of Mt. Vernon Tourism | 23 |
| and Convention and the American Red
Cross; he also helps in the | 24 |
| Relay for Life, Southern Illinois Trails System,
Veteran City | 25 |
| Park, Neighborhood Crime Watch, Jefferson County Crime
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| Stoppers, Kiwanis Club of Mt. Vernon, and the Jefferson County | 2 |
| Operation Iraqi
Freedom Committee; he helps in Habitat for | 3 |
| Humanity and has worked with Group
Workcamp mission in Mt. | 4 |
| Vernon; and he attends church regularly at the First
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| Presbyterian Church; and
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| WHEREAS, Joan Mandrell was born and raised in Ashley; she | 7 |
| worked at
the local telephone company during her high school | 8 |
| years; in June of 1952 she
married Harry "Jack" Mandrell and | 9 |
| they moved to Mt. Vernon; her first job in Mt. Vernon was at | 10 |
| Jefferson Loan; she then went to Commercial Credit
and from | 11 |
| there to Doctor's Park; once her family was grown she worked at | 12 |
| the
Mt. Vernon Post Office as a rural carrier and later | 13 |
| retired; during her many
years of employment, there were | 14 |
| several intervals that she became a stay-at-home mom to her | 15 |
| five children, Steve, Sherry, Scott, Stan, and Sue; she is the | 16 |
| proud grandmother of
eleven grandchildren, one | 17 |
| great-grandchild, and another due in January of
2010; she and | 18 |
| her husband, Jack, built their home on his family farm and | 19 |
| joined the West
Long Prairie Christian church, where she is | 20 |
| still an active member; in March of 2001 Jack suffered a severe | 21 |
| burn accident; he spent a
year in the hospital and the Lord | 22 |
| called him home in November of 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, Pauline Moore was born on August 9, 1912, on the | 24 |
| Triple Oak Farm in rural
Jefferson County; she is one of seven |
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| children born to Walter and Mary Waite; she married Lee Moore | 2 |
| in 1936 and they had three children; she was a
homemaker until | 3 |
| her children were grown and then she worked in the Mt. Vernon
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| High School cafeteria and drove a school bus;
Pauline is a | 5 |
| charter member of the South Side Baptist Church, where she | 6 |
| attends
regularly and is an active participant in the church’s | 7 |
| activities; she is
also a 40-year member of the V.F.W., and in | 8 |
| the past has been an office holder; she has also been an active | 9 |
| member in AARP and the Sunshine Center; in April of 2005, the | 10 |
| Jefferson County Democrats awarded Pauline with the John F.
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| Kennedy award for her many years of dedication and support to | 12 |
| the Democratic
Party; she has been very active in the Grass | 13 |
| Roots Organization and also
served as an election judge for | 14 |
| many years; Pauline has also delivered meals
to those in need | 15 |
| in her area on foot; she continues to serve as a poll
watcher | 16 |
| in local, State, and national elections and is relied upon in | 17 |
| her
precinct for her honesty and integrity; and
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| WHEREAS, Beverly Lorraine Page was born in Mt. Vernon on | 19 |
| December 4, 1924, to
Clarence and Ella Nolta; she lived on | 20 |
| College Street and still lives in the
very same house in which | 21 |
| she was born; she attended Field School, Casey Jr.
High, and | 22 |
| then Mt. Vernon High School, graduating in 1943; Beverly | 23 |
| married
Clive Elwood Page and had two children, Richard and | 24 |
| Vikki; they have 5
grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren;
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| Beverly has been a Girl Scout and Cub Scout leader and has also |
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| been a
leader of the TOPS Club (Take Off Pounds Sensibly); | 2 |
| rising to the challenge,
she became the Queen, losing 75 pounds | 3 |
| in one of her eight years there; she is a
devout Christian; she | 4 |
| has been Sunday School Superintendent, teacher, youth
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| fellowship leader, and United Methodist Woman's President; she | 6 |
| worked at
District 80 Schools as a cook, and for 17 years she | 7 |
| worked at the bakery in
IGA, later retiring in 1985; for the | 8 |
| past 8 years, Beverly has volunteered her time at Crossroads
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| Hospital; she has been the president and vice president of the | 10 |
| volunteer
workers and presently works in the bazaar, book, and | 11 |
| bake sales; in the
past years she has been nominated as | 12 |
| Volunteer of the Year for her service
and dedication; Beverly | 13 |
| is proud of a great accomplishment she has earned
this year, a | 14 |
| 4,000-hour pin; in her spare time Beverly enjoys reading the | 15 |
| Bible, spending time with
family, and working on puzzles of any | 16 |
| kind and is also an avid St. Louis
Cardinals fan; she believes | 17 |
| that all of the things she has done and
accomplished in her | 18 |
| life have been possible because God has given her the
ability | 19 |
| and health to do what she does; and
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| WHEREAS, Michael Poninski was born in Pinckneyville, on | 21 |
| June 21, 1941; later his
family moved to Central City, where he | 22 |
| began his schooling; he then attended
and graduated from | 23 |
| Centralia High School; he attended Kaskaskia College for one
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| semester before he went to the Army Artillery for 6 months; | 25 |
| then 5 1/2 years
of active Reserves;
Mike worked at McDonald |
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| Aircraft in St. Louis when he met his wife Sue in
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| were married on February 16, 1963 and moved to Woodlawn, where
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| Mike started work at the Illinois Central Car Shop, the CB&Q, | 4 |
| and the
Burlington Northern Railway until retirement in July of | 5 |
| 2001; Mike and Sue are
the parents of Tim and Anita and are the | 6 |
| grandparents of 7; in 1971 Woodlawn did not have a Fire | 7 |
| Department and Mike was instrumental in
establishing the Fire | 8 |
| Department and helped raise funds to purchase the first
Fire | 9 |
| Truck in 1972; Mike has been a fireman for 37 years and Fire | 10 |
| Chief
since 1993 for 16 years; he has also spent 14 years on | 11 |
| the Woodlawn Grade
School Board, 30 years on the Woodlawn | 12 |
| Christian Church Board, 3 years on
the Woodlawn Village Board, | 13 |
| and 14 years as a Woodlawn Little League Coach; in 2004, Mike | 14 |
| began a new challenge when he was diagnosed with cancer; he was | 15 |
| diagnosed again in 2007; his tests have now come back
clear and | 16 |
| he continues to serve as the Woodlawn Fire Chief; and
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| WHEREAS, Lillian Ruth McKitrick Scott was born on March 3, | 18 |
| 1925 to Jewell and Corine
McKirtrick, in Wayne County; she was | 19 |
| the third oldest of five
children, and attended a one-room | 20 |
| elementary school and graduated with
honors from Wayne City | 21 |
| High School in 1943; while in high school, she served
as | 22 |
| president of the Girls' Athletic Association, as well as | 23 |
| Editor-in-Chief
of the school yearbook; in 1947, she married | 24 |
| Loren Dale Scott and they were married for 39 years when
Loren | 25 |
| passed away in December of 1986; early in their marriage, |
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| employment
opportunities took them to Cairo and then to Mt. | 2 |
| Vernon; in 1956,
Loren and Lillian were blessed with a | 3 |
| daughter, Lisa; in the 1960s Lillian
and Loren joined First | 4 |
| United Methodist Church in Mt. Vernon; in 1961, Lillian began | 5 |
| to fulfill her life long dream of returning to
college and | 6 |
| earning a degree; when she finally stopped taking classes in
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| 1980, she had not only earned an Associates of Arts Degree from | 8 |
| Mt. Vernon
Community College, but also a Bachelor of Science | 9 |
| Degree in Education from
Southern Illinois University in | 10 |
| Carbondale, and a Master of Science Degree in
Special | 11 |
| Education; she was recognized on Honors day at Southern | 12 |
| Illinois University in Carbondale with a Superior
Scholastic | 13 |
| Achievement Award; in 1974, Lillian joined the staff at Mt.
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| Vernon Township High School as a Special Education instructor | 15 |
| and retired
in 1993;
Lillian is a member of both Kappa Delta Pi | 16 |
| and Pi Lambda Theta, honor
fraternities for professional | 17 |
| educators; she is also a member of the
Association for Retarded | 18 |
| Citizens; even though she has received many
academic and | 19 |
| professional honors, Lillian is most proud of her letters from
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| Eunice Kennedy Shriver on completing Special Olympics Training | 21 |
| School; she
often chaperoned students on weekends and in the | 22 |
| summer to other cities so
that they could compete as Special | 23 |
| Olympic Athletes; currently she volunteers at Angels on | 24 |
| Assignment, and is a 50-year member of
the Eastern Star; in | 25 |
| addition to her being recognized as a Senior Saint,
Lillian has | 26 |
| also recently been nominated as this year's Illinois Retired
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| Teachers Jefferson County Honoree; and
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| WHEREAS, Beverly Walker was born in Akin on February 15, | 3 |
| 1938; she was the oldest of six
siblings to Roger and Katherine | 4 |
| Neal; her family moved to Mt. Vernon when
she was three; | 5 |
| Beverly attended Edison Grade School, Casey Junior High, and
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| Mt. Vernon High School and graduated in 1956; two weeks after | 7 |
| graduating, Beverly married Gale Galloway and had six
daughters | 8 |
| in a span of ten years; Gale was a Baptist Minister and Beverly
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| served alongside him in churches throughout Indiana, Missouri, | 10 |
| and Texas; after twelve years of marriage Gale left Beverly; | 11 |
| she then started on the
journey of rearing their daughters | 12 |
| alone;
Beverly enrolled in secretarial courses and earned her | 13 |
| Executive
Secretarial Diploma from Business College in | 14 |
| Nacogdoches, Texas; she was
interviewed by several federal | 15 |
| government agencies and was hired in December of
1970 by the | 16 |
| Internal Revenue Service as a clerk typist and worked her way
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| up to a supervisory position as the Representative for the | 18 |
| agency; after a number of years as a single person, she married | 19 |
| Jesse Walker in
Oklahoma and he passed away in 1996; Beverly | 20 |
| retired in 2005 but has kept
busy volunteering her time and | 21 |
| services to helping others; in 2004-2005, she
was the president | 22 |
| of the local Business and Professional Women and was
Director | 23 |
| and Regional Director for three groups in Southern Illinois; | 24 |
| for
four years she has worked with a group of women helping to | 25 |
| build homes;
Habitat for Humanity in the Alton area has been |
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| blessed with four homes
built for the most part by women;
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| Beverly is presently a Facilitator for the Delilah Jones Women | 3 |
| on Missions
group at Park Avenue Baptist Church; she plans to | 4 |
| travel in the near future
with friends and involve herself in | 5 |
| volunteering to serve where needed; everyday when she opens her | 6 |
| eyes, she thanks God for another day and seeks
His plans for | 7 |
| her and the new day; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 9 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 10 |
| congratulate the 2009 inductees into the Jefferson County | 11 |
| Senior Saints Hall of Fame and wish them all success in their | 12 |
| future endeavors; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 14 |
| presented to the 2009 inductees into the Jefferson County | 15 |
| Senior Saints Hall of Fame as symbols of our respect and | 16 |
| esteem.
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