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 1                          HOUSE RESOLUTION

 2        WHEREAS, The members of the House of  Representatives  of
 3    the  State of Illinois were saddened to learn of the death of
 4    Ozella Faye McGavock Mason on September 26, 2003; and

 5        WHEREAS, Mrs. Mason was born  on  November  8,  1911,  to
 6    Laura  Mae  Lewis  and  Randall  Horton  McGavock,  Jr.;  she
 7    attended Forestville Elementary School, Englewood and Wendell
 8    Phillips  High  Schools, and Crane Junior College; during her
 9    school days,  she  was  an  active  member  of  the  Sionilli
10    Adelphia Girls' Club; and

11        WHEREAS,  In  1929,  she met Charles Gay Morrow when they
12    both played basketball as a hobby, he with the Belvideres and
13    she with their sister team, the  Val  Donnas;  the  following
14    year,  they  were  married  and  to this union, two sons were
15    born, Charles II and Byron; and

16        WHEREAS, In the early 1940s, Mrs. Mason was  employed  by
17    Illinois  Bell as a service representative and remained there
18    until her retirement; she was a  member  of  Old  Friends  of
19    Greater Chicago and the Chicago Couple Club; and

20        WHEREAS,  Mrs.  Mason enjoyed traveling and cherished her
21    memories of Japan, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, and the  Caribbean;
22    she  especially  loved  traveling  to California to visit her
23    grandchildren and their families; and

24        WHEREAS, In 1982, Ozella Mason married  Daniel  W.  Mason
25    whom  she  had  met  several  years  earlier when he shared a
26    hospital room with her brother; she was preceded in death  by
27    her  sons,  Charles  II  and Byron, her half-brother, Leonard
28    McGavock, her brother Randall III,  and  a  sister,  Mercedes
29    Roberts; and

30        WHEREAS,  The  passing  of Ozella Faye McGavock Mason has
31    been deeply felt by many, especially her husband, Daniel; her
 
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 1    sisters, Gwendolyn Dyett Burks and Nasomiruth M.  Scott;  her
 2    stepson,  Daniel  W.  Mason,  Jr.;  her  grandchildren, State
 3    Representative Charles  Morrow  III  (Sherri),  Cathy  Carter
 4    (Craig),     and     Kelly     Bradford     (Patrick);    her
 5    great-grandchildren, Charles IV,  Micheal,  Stephen,  CaLynn,
 6    Craig,  Jr., Camera, Brittany, Blaike, and Blaire; her niece,
 7    Donna L. Scott; and her nephews, Louis and Lawrence  Roberts;
 8    therefore, be it

 9        RESOLVED,   BY   THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES  OF  THE
10    NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,  that
11    we  mourn  the  passing of Ozella Faye McGavock Mason, and we
12    extend our deepest sympathy to her family, friends,  and  all
13    who knew and loved her; and be it further

14        RESOLVED,  That  a  suitable  copy  of this resolution be
15    presented to the family of Mrs. Mason as an expression of our
16    deepest sympathy.