Full Text of SR0821 96th General Assembly
SR0821 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 Fredericka J. Nash of East St. Louis, who | 4 |
| passed away on April 26, 2010; and
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| WHEREAS, She was born the middle child of three girls on | 6 |
| December 18, 1919, in East St. Louis to C.T. and Emma Edwards | 7 |
| Nash; as a native of East St. Louis, she attended St. Augustine | 8 |
| Grade School and graduated from Lincoln School; and
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| WHEREAS, Fredericka lived a life of academic achievements | 10 |
| through her acumen in higher education; she was a member of the | 11 |
| Radiance Center for Spiritual Living in Belleville; Fredericka | 12 |
| was the owner of Nash Funeral Home, the area's oldest black | 13 |
| owned funeral business; she, along with her sisters M. Frances | 14 |
| and Claudia M., from birth, began their lives in funeral | 15 |
| service under the guidance of their father, C.T. Nash; and
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| WHEREAS, Fredericka was a member of the following | 17 |
| organizations: the Illinois Retired Teachers Association, the | 18 |
| St. Clair County Retired Teachers Association, the St. Clair | 19 |
| County Funeral Directors Association, the Missouri Funeral | 20 |
| Directors Association, the Missouri State Funeral Directors | 21 |
| and Embalmers Association, the St. Louis Gateway Funeral | 22 |
| Directors and Embalmers Association, the 100 Black Women of |
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| Funeral Service, the American Society of Embalmers, the | 2 |
| National Funeral Directors Association, the National Funeral | 3 |
| Directors and Morticians Association, the International | 4 |
| Graphoanalysis Society, the Alumni Society of SIU-E and SIU-C, | 5 |
| the Funeral Service Advisory Board, and she was a lifetime | 6 |
| member of the NAACP; she was also a past member of the East St. | 7 |
| Louis Civil Service Police and Fire Board, the St. Clair County | 8 |
| EEOC, and a Board member of School District 189; and
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| WHEREAS, Lovingly called "Fricks", she enjoyed traveling | 10 |
| to exotic areas; she was an Enrichment Program Lecturer for | 11 |
| cruise lines; she had also done research on variation | 12 |
| handwriting which was presented to the International Forensic | 13 |
| Society in Oxford, England in 1984; she had been lecturing | 14 |
| around the world until her health began to fail; and she was a | 15 |
| certified lecturer for the State of Illinois for Continuing | 16 |
| Education Units (CEUs); and | 17 |
| WHEREAS, In 1994, she was granted certification as an | 18 |
| authorized OSHA outreach trainer; and she was an insurance | 19 |
| producer and also the publisher of two books; and | 20 |
| WHEREAS, She was preceded in death by her parents and two | 21 |
| sisters, M. Frances Nash Terrell and Claudia M. Nash; and
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| WHEREAS, Fredericka Nash is survived by her niece, Claudia |
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| E. Nash-Thomas; her numerous cousins; her two-god children, Lt. | 2 |
| Caroliss A. Childress and Fredericka Agnew; her extended | 3 |
| family, Harold (Fannie) Wayne, Marion Wayne, James Edward | 4 |
| (Carmen) Wayne, Marvin Wayne, Reginald (Marita) Wayne, | 5 |
| Michelle (Elwood) Buchannan, Michael (Carmel) Smith; and many | 6 |
| loving and dear friends; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 8 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 9 |
| her family and friends, the passing of Fredericka Nash; and be | 10 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 |
| presented to the family of Fredericka Nash as a symbol of our | 13 |
| sincere sympathy.
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