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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois |
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| learned with regret of the death of Susie M. Jones Williams on |
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| Wednesday, May 3, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, She was born on June 20, 1917, in West Point, |
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| Mississippi, to Julia and William Jones Sr.; she was a very |
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| vocal child and enjoyed singing from the age of ten years old; |
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| she accepted Christ as her personal savior on August 1, 1927, |
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| and was baptized; and
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| WHEREAS, She married Eugene Williams Sr. on January 28, |
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| 1934, and they shared 53 years of marriage; in 1943, they moved |
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| to Chicago, where she became a member of Holy Rock Baptist |
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| Church and went on to join Omega Missionary Baptist Church in |
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| 1962; and
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| WHEREAS, As a member of Omega, she was active in the Doctor |
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| Watts Group and the Evelyn Blair Club; she attended Omega until |
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| 1982, when the Greater Omega Missionary Baptist Church was |
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| formed; she was always very active with the prayer band and |
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| other ministries; she was loved and respected by her church |
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| family, and God was a very important part of her life; she |
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| became a member of Progressive Community Church in later years; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Williams was preceded in death by her father |
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| and mother, William and Julia Jones Sr.; her husband, Eugene |
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| Williams Sr.; her son, Booker T. Williams; her son-in-law, |
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| Benjamin Smith Sr.; her granddaughter, Cheryl Smith; and her |
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| great-grandson, Eric Washington; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Susie M. Jones Williams has been |
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| deeply felt by many, especially her children, Hattie Cherry |
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| (Lott), Estella Smith, Robert L. Williams, Eugene Williams, Jr. |