SR0767 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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SENATE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to learn of the death of Julia Louise Yarbrough, who passed away on December 28, 2013; and

WHEREAS, Julia Yarbrough was born on September 22, 1953; her parents were Rayford Maye and Louise Johnson; and

WHEREAS, Julia Yarbrough confessed her belief in Christ at an early age and joined Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Coatopa, Alabama; after leaving Alabama, she met Rayfield Yarbrough Sr. in the early 1970s; she later joined a loving fellowship with the Gideon Missionary Baptist Church in Waukegan for 43 years, where she served and was a faithful and loyal member of the Christian Education Ministry, the First Aide Ministry, the Youth Ministry, and the Deaconess Board; she and her husband later moved to Florence, Alabama, where she served as a mother at Ekklesia Ministries; and

WHEREAS, Julia Yarbrough worked for Abbott Laboratory for 32 years until her retirement in 2005; and

WHEREAS, Julia Yarbrough was preceded in death by her father; her grandmother, Addie B. Harris; her aunts, Katie Mae Moore and Renissa Miller; her uncle, William Miller; her grandparents, Johnnie Miller, Sr. and Katie Miller; her sister-in-law, Rosie Lee Yarbrough; her nephew, Michael Spears; and her sister, Ruthie Maye; and

WHEREAS, Julia Yarbrough is survived by her husband of 42 years, Rayfield Yarbrough, Sr.; her son, Rev. Rayfield Yarbrough, Jr. (Qiana); her daughters, Porsha Edwards (Michael) and Candra Yarbrough (Kendrid); her mother; her brothers, Roy Green, James Finch, Mack Miller, Larry Miller, Marshall Johnson, Mark Johnson, Rodney Maye, Keenan Maye, and Shay Maye; her sisters, Gail Johnson, Judy Johnson, Lisa Ramsey, Tasha Stevenson, Egypt Johnson, Regina Maye, Rayeanne Cunningham, Ratanya Wiker, and Bonnie Santiago; her grandchildren, Jalen Yarbrough, Jordan Yarbrough, Raven Edwards, Jeremiah Wheeler-Yarbrough, and Brooklyn Edwards; her dearest cousins, Josephine Woods, Min. Carrie Moore, Ruby Mae West, William Miller, Rev. Richard Miller, and Louis Sellers; her dearest friends, Thelma Williams, Dora King and Cassie Gray, Verner Duty, Cecilia Pryor, and Annie White; and her adopted children, Carla Baldwin, Keyosha Emerson, Apostle and Pastor Fitzgerald and their daughters, Willie (Kendra) Rounsaville, Robert (Sharlett) James, Alvin (Seren) Young, and Theo Allen; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with her family and friends, mourn the passing of Julia Louise Yarbrough; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to the family of Julia Yarbrough as an expression of our sympathy.