Full Text of SR0778 96th General Assembly
SR0778 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
Leatrice E. Hall, who passed away on | 4 |
| April 10, 2010; and
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| WHEREAS, Leatrice Hall was born on April 18, 1953, in | 6 |
| Chicago; her parents were Fletcher C. and Elizabeth Hall; and
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| WHEREAS, Leatrice Hall grew up in the Chicago neighborhood | 8 |
| of Bronzeville; she attended Wendell Phillips and Dunbar High | 9 |
| Schools and Kennedy King College; and
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| WHEREAS, Leatrice Hall had a long and distinguished career | 11 |
| in child care; she began as a babysitter for her first niece, | 12 |
| Zena, then began her formal career of serving children at the | 13 |
| Augustana Children's Home on Chicago's north side; for over 5 | 14 |
| years, she helped to take care of children with special needs | 15 |
| and engaged them in different activities; she subsequently | 16 |
| worked at several other home day care providers, then cared for | 17 |
| children full-time at her home; she also worked at the W.W. | 18 |
| Vincent Insurance Company of America, the American States | 19 |
| Insurance Company, and the City of Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, Leatrice Hall accepted Christ at an early age; she | 21 |
| formally became a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ |
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| in 2002 after fellowshipping with her family at Trinity for | 2 |
| over 15 years; she worked in the church's Food Share Ministry | 3 |
| for many years; and
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| WHEREAS, Leatrice Hall was preceded in death by her sister, | 5 |
| Karen; her uncle, Johnny; and her grandmother, Sarah Mae | 6 |
| Leslie; and
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| WHEREAS, Leatrice Hall is survived by her parents; her son, | 8 |
| Steve Aric Hall; her daughter-in-law, Gene' Charlese Hall; her | 9 |
| granddaughters, Amaya and Malia; her brothers, Zachary E. Hall | 10 |
| (Kendrea) and Fletcher A. Hall; her sisters, Diane Livingston, | 11 |
| Sandra Hall, and Yolanda Hall; her nieces, Zena Beach (Kip), | 12 |
| Cherise, Cara, Karen, and Erika; her nephews, Fletcher A. Hall | 13 |
| III, Tremayne (Tanya), and Kenneth; her great-nieces, Blake | 14 |
| Bowie and Nia; her great-nephews, Zachary, Nicholas, Kendell, | 15 |
| Keadon, and Isaac; her aunts, Mary Freeman and Mildred | 16 |
| Williams; her uncle, Odell Moody; and her many cousins, other | 17 |
| relatives, and friends; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 19 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 20 |
| her family and friends, the passing of Leatrice E. Hall; and be | 21 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| presented to the family of Leatrice Hall as an expression of | 2 |
| our sympathy.
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