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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate wish to express |
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| their sincere condolences to the family and friends of
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| Rosa Hooker, who passed away on March 29, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Mother Rosa Hooker was born on September 4, 1916 |
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| in Ebenezer, Mississippi; her parents were Samuel and Carrie |
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| Pickens Whorton; and
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| WHEREAS, Mother Rosa Hooker accepted Christ as her Savior |
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| in 1928 at Franklin Church of God in Christ in Lexington, |
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| Mississippi; she became a member in the St. John Church of God |
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| in Christ in 1930, where she and her father assisted in the |
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| church's construction; she married Arthur Nathaniel Hooker in |
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| 1933 and 11 children were born to this union; and
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| WHEREAS, Mother Rosa Hooker moved to Chicago with her |
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| family in 1941; she joined the Lake Street Church of God in |
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| Christ, where she was a Sunday School teacher and the Young |
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| Women's Christian Council founder and president; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1952, the family moved southwest and united |
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| with Carol Devine Temple Church of God in Christ, where Mother |
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| Rosa Hooker served as Sunday school teacher, deaconess, and |
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| Sunshine Band leader; later she joined Inspirational |
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| Deliverance Center Church of God in Christ; and
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| WHEREAS, Mother Rosa Hooker returned to Mississippi in |
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| 1981, where she assisted in the construction and operation of |
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| the St. Matthew Church of God in Christ in Lexington, |
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| Mississippi; after her return to Illinois in 1993, she |
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| continued her membership at the Inspirational Deliverance |
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| Center Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where she served as |
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| the building fund captain and Sunday School teacher; and
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| WHEREAS, Mother Rosa Hooker will be remembered by all her |
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| knew and loved her, especially her children, Carrie Dee Coleman |
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| (Charles), Lonnie (Mary), Everlena Taylor, Pastor Shirley |
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| Hughes, John T. (Kim), Rosemary, and Shadrick; her sister, |
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| Martha Mason; her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, her |
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| great-great grandchildren, her spiritual daughters, Margaret |
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| Harris and Vernon Oliver Price, her nieces, nephews, cousins, |
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| relatives, friends, and her church family; she was preceded in |
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| death by her parents; her husband, Arthur Nathaniel Hooker; her |
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| children, Arthur, Charles, Julius, and Jerry; her siblings, |
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| William, Alonzo, Rayfield, Garfield, Robert, Samuel Dale, |
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| Leanna, Everlena, Lennie, and Earner; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL |
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| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with |
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| her family and friends, the passing of Mother Rosa Hooker; and |