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1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened |
3 | | to learn of the death of Annette Reid Nolan, who passed away on |
4 | | January 23, 2022 at the age of 83; and
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5 | | WHEREAS, Annette Reid Nolan was born to Reverend Milton |
6 | | Prentiss Reid and Myra W. Phelps in Fort Smith, Arkansas on |
7 | | November 23, 1938; and
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8 | | WHEREAS, Annette Reid Nolan was smart and athletic; she |
9 | | played piano in church and won a statewide singing contest in |
10 | | Virginia; she was crowned homecoming queen her senior year of |
11 | | high school; and
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12 | | WHEREAS, Annette Reid Nolan lived in Richmond, Virginia |
13 | | and worked at the Bank of Richmond; she went to nursing school |
14 | | at Birmingham Baptist Hospital, met her husband, and |
15 | | participated in the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama; she and |
16 | | her husband moved to Chicago around 1966; and |
17 | | WHEREAS, Annette Reid Nolan found her calling in |
18 | | psychiatry, working as a psychiatric nurse at Michael Reese |
19 | | Hospital and as a nurse manager on a psychiatric-substance use |
20 | | inpatient unit at the Hines VA Medical Center; and
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1 | | WHEREAS, Annette Reid Nolan earned a Bachelor of Arts in |
2 | | Art History from St. Xavier University; she loved reading, |
3 | | bird-watching, action movies, football, koi ponds, driving |
4 | | fast, gardening, cooking Indian and Mexican dinners, the Sugar |
5 | | Hill Gang, civic involvement, MSNBC, Stephen Colbert, and |
6 | | watching dolphins swim the Atlantic from her porch perch in |
7 | | Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; she offered an accepting, loving |
8 | | ear for one's personal crisis, struggle, or story; and
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9 | | WHEREAS, At the time of her passing, Annette Reid Nolan |
10 | | was survived by her children, Kisten Devine Nolan and Verdant |
11 | | (Philip Ravia Reid) Nolan; her grandchildren, Nicholas Philip |
12 | | Laughton, Kye (Kisten Leslie) Nolan, Thea Day Atkins, and |
13 | | Kendall Brinkley Laughton; and many nieces and nephews; |
14 | | therefore, be it
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15 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL |
16 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of |
17 | | Annette Reid Nolan and extend our sincere condolences to her |
18 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it |
19 | | further
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20 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
21 | | presented to the family of Annette Reid Nolan as an expression |
22 | | of our deepest sympathy.
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