Full Text of HR1196 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate Fancie L. Windham of | 4 | | Chicago on the occasion of her 100th birthday on June 1, 2014; | 5 | | and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Fancie Windham (nee Green) arrived in Chicago from | 7 | | Alliceville (Pickens County), Alabama, with 4 small children to | 8 | | reunite with her husband, Matt, Sr. in 1942; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Fancie Windham first worked as a beautician at | 10 | | Mrs. Parker's Beauty Salon on East 43rd Street; she then worked | 11 | | as a floor attendant at Cat's Millinery Company on South Water | 12 | | Street in downtown Chicago; she started creating hand-made hats | 13 | | for herself, and, due to requests, started selling them to | 14 | | others; she opened her first hat shop on East 43rd Street in | 15 | | 1942, operating it until 1968; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Fancie Windham was a self-taught handmade hat and | 17 | | clothes/accessory designer; she utilized her family members to | 18 | | form a hat modeling troupe; her grandson, Eddie, became her | 19 | | personal hat assistant on stage and at the hat shop; she and | 20 | | her hat models participated in the annual Bud Billiken parade | 21 | | as they rode in a convertible for 35 years; the hat troupe also | 22 | | modeled hats at various church and social events throughout |
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| 1 | | Chicago and surrounding states, including 17 years on the late | 2 | | Isabel Joseph Johnson's Rock of Ages Channel 26 TV show and the | 3 | | Idlewild (MI) Lot Owners' Association annual August week of | 4 | | events finale variety show for 14 years; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, During the mid-1940s, Fancie Windham joined The | 6 | | Dainty Matrons Social Club, an affiliate group of the Chicago | 7 | | Northern District Association (CNDA) of Club Women and Girls, | 8 | | Inc.; she then joined the Myrtle McKenzie Self-Realization | 9 | | Club; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Fancie Windham has received numerous civic, | 11 | | religious awards, and citations, including the late Mrs. Bertha | 12 | | Clifton's "Designers Hall of Fame" award; she traveled with the | 13 | | Chicago Democratic Women on its 'Route 66' Trip to Washington, | 14 | | D.C. as guests of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson at the | 15 | | White House; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, Fancie Windham is semi-retired and services | 17 | | existing hat customers as the country's oldest-known milliner; | 18 | | she is the oldest living member of the Evening Star Missionary | 19 | | Baptist Church in Chicago; and | 20 | | WHEREAS, Fancie Windham's grandson created the Fancie L. | 21 | | Windham's Millinery/Accessories Scholarship Foundation for | 22 | | aspiring secondary students who desire to pursue a fashion |
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| 1 | | design degree; the CNDA's building fund is one of the | 2 | | foundations's designated benefactors; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Fancie Windham is one of the legendary CNDA | 4 | | members; therefore, be it
| 5 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 6 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 7 | | we congratulate Fancie L. Windham of Chicago on her 100th | 8 | | birthday and wish her many more wonderful years; and be it | 9 | | further
| 10 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 11 | | presented to Fancie Windham as an expression of our esteem and | 12 | | respect.
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