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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Barbara Jones Green; and
 
4     WHEREAS, Barbara Jones Green earned her Bachelor of Science
5 degree in business administration from Tennessee State
6 University; she earned her Master of Science degree in Social
7 Work from Spertus College in 1999; and
 
8     WHEREAS, Barbara Jones Green founded the Lakeside
9 Community Committee, a licensed child welfare authority which
10 provides for the social and recreational needs of at-risk
11 children and teens, in 1964; under her leadership, the
12 organization grew to administer a variety of programs and
13 services, including Substance Abuse Awareness, Teen Pregnancy
14 Prevention, Unwed Mothers Parenting, Literacy Enhancement,
15 Reading and Math Clinics with tutoring, Referral Services, Teen
16 Reach, Foster Parent Recruitment, Visitation Programs,
17 Employment Assistance Counseling, and Welfare-to-Work
18 Programs; she also joined forces with the Illinois Department
19 of Children and Family Services and the Illinois Department of
20 Human Services to expand her company's outreach; and
 
21     WHEREAS, Barbara Jones Green was the founder of Jonette
22 Products Enterprise, Ltd., a diverse concession management and

 

 

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1 management systems corporation; and
 
2     WHEREAS, Barbara Jones Green was the founder of the Golfing
3 Friends of Chicago, a charitable organization that has provided
4 over $400,000 in educational scholarships to needy students;
5 she was also involved in fundraising efforts to benefit United
6 Way, AfriCare, Vision of Freedom at Southern University, Xavier
7 University, and Haven House; and
 
8     WHEREAS, Barbara Jones Green was an active presence in her
9 community; she was a tireless worker on the Illinois Public Aid
10 Advisory Council; she served as the chairperson of the Mayor's
11 Blue Ribbon Committee for Historic Preservation of
12 Bronzeville; she served on the Board of Directors of the
13 Halfway House for Girls of Crestwood, Illinois; she served as
14 Vice Chairman of the Chicago Board of Appeals from 1983 until
15 1990; she was also a member in The Links, Incorporated, the
16 Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Moles, Incorporated, Carousels,
17 Incorporated, and Metropolitan Clusters; and
 
18     WHEREAS, Barbara Jones Green was the recipient of many
19 awards in honor of her many accomplishments, including a 2006
20 ETA Theatre Outstanding Business Woman award, a 2005 T.W.O.
21 Business Leader Award, a 2005 Phenomenal Woman Award, a 2003
22 HANS Foundation Award, a 1998 Cook County Women's Commission
23 Unsung Heroine Award, a nomination for a 1992 Dollars and Sense

 

 

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1 Magazine's America's Best and Brightest Award, a 1992 Illinois
2 DCFS Clara Muhammad Foundation Award, a Chicago Housing
3 Authority Central Advisory Council's Meritorious Service Award
4 in 1992, a Woodson North and South Schools Partnership with
5 Youth Outstanding Leadership Award in 1992, a Beasley Academic
6 Center's Commitment to Education Award in 1991, and a National
7 Council of Negro Women Lena Walker Outstanding Businessman's
8 Award in 1984; and
 
9     WHEREAS, Barbara Jones Green was preceded in death by her
10 parents and her brother; and
 
11     WHEREAS, Barbara Jones Green is survived by her sisters,
12 Gertha Estill (John) and Betty Robertson (Cleveland); her
13 sister-in-law, Rosalyn Jones; her nieces, Ruby Boatner
14 (Ronnie), Jan Blair (Ray), Gwen Holt (Will), Cassandra Shead
15 (Ken), Vanessa Adkins Ed.D. (Floyd), Nedra Patterson (Lew),
16 Carolyn Burkes (Michael), and Nicole Patterson Eades (Joseph);
17 her nephews, Charlie Gatson, Michael Williams, Jerry Wheeler,
18 Robert (Scoop) Jackson, Randall (Jack) Jackson, Anthony Jones
19 (Morticia), and Frederick Jones; her godmother, Gloria Bynum;
20 her loving friend, Joe Chu; her special friends, Illinois
21 Senate President Emil Jones, Jr., and Lula Ford; and her many
22 other relatives and extended families she claimed, as well as
23 her many friends throughout the City of Chicago, the United
24 States, and abroad; therefore, be it
 

 

 

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1     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL
2 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
3 her family and friends, the passing of Barbara Jones Green; and
4 be it further
 
5     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
6 presented to the family of Barbara Jones Green as an expression
7 of our sympathy.