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90_SR0148
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1 SENATE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, The members of the Senate were saddened to learn
3 of the death of Mrs. Janet Marie Neely Cooper on Monday,
4 January 19, 1998; and
5 WHEREAS, She was to the union of Mrs. Katherine Kenney
6 Neely and the late Mr. Clifton Neely; and
7 WHEREAS, She attended Paul Lawrence Dunbar Elementary
8 School, Lincoln Senior High School, and attended Tennessee
9 State University; she received a Bachelor's Degree from
10 Southern Illinois University; she was employed by School
11 District 189 as a Special Educator Teacher at Nelson Mandela
12 Middle School; and
13 WHEREAS, Mrs. Cooper served the Wesley-Bethel United
14 Methodist Church, the choir, the usher board, and the United
15 Methodist Women Club-Sub Group Mary; and
16 WHEREAS, She was a volunteer for a total of 25 years at
17 Christian Welfare Hospital in East Saint Louis and later at
18 Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri; she was a
19 member of the Violet Thimble Federated Club of Illinois, the
20 East St. Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and
21 the Economic Development Commitee; and
22 WHEREAS, She leaves to mourn her passing her son, Senator
23 James Franklin Clayborne; her daughter, Mrs. Cheri Patrice
24 Smith; her daughter-in-law, Staci; her son-in-law, Gary; her
25 mother, Mrs. Katherine Kenney Brown; her grandchildren, James
26 Franklin, Joseph Anthony, Justin Aaron, Adam Thornton, and
27 Amanda Marie; her sisters, Mrs. Gwendolyn Thomas and Mrs.
28 Katherine Stubblefield; her brother, Clifton; her uncles,
29 James, Earl, Roy, Howard; her aunts, Dorothy Austin, Beatrice
30 Neely, and Reba Kenney; and her mother-in-law, Mrs. Frances
31 Clayborne; therefore, be it
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1 RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
2 OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we express our sincere
3 condolences to the family of Mrs. Janet Marie Neely Cooper;
4 and be it further
5 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
6 presented to Senator James F. Clayborne and to Mrs. Cheri
7 Smith.