Full Text of SR0770 93rd General Assembly
SR0770 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois | 3 |
| learned with regret of the death of the Reverend Dr. Jesse Lee | 4 |
| Wiggins of Bethalto on Sunday, December 26, 2004; and
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| WHEREAS, Reverend Wiggins was born on October 10, 1940, in | 6 |
| Augusta, Georgia, to Lester Wallace and Claudia Mae (Shaffer) | 7 |
| Wiggins; he married Rachel Lee Corley on May 16, 1959, in | 8 |
| Augusta; and
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| WHEREAS, Reverend Wiggins followed his mother's dying wish | 10 |
| that her son be a Pentecostal preacher; his first sermon was at | 11 |
| age 13, which began a career consisting of 12 churches, more | 12 |
| than 5,000 sermons, and more than 8,700 converts; he had been | 13 |
| the pastor at Bethalto Church of God from 1974 to 1982 and from | 14 |
| 1991 until 2004; he was a member of numerous State and | 15 |
| international boards through Church of God Ministries, with | 16 |
| headquarters in Cleveland, Tennessee, including the State | 17 |
| council, the Church of God Editorial and Publications Board, | 18 |
| and the Bethalto Area Ministerial Alliance; he also wrote five | 19 |
| books and many articles and booklets; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Reverend Dr. Jesse Lee Wiggins has | 21 |
| been deeply felt by his entire congregation and everyone whose | 22 |
| life he touched, but especially by his wife, Rachel; his | 23 |
| daughter and her husband, Michelle and Duane Rose; his son and | 24 |
| his wife, Joseph and Pamela Wiggins; his grandchildren, Jessica | 25 |
| Rose, Kyle Wiggins, Tyler Wiggins, Heather Rose, and Michael | 26 |
| Wiggins; his sister and her husband, Janice Paulette and Hugh | 27 |
| Wendell Thomason; his brothers and their wives, Lester Ranny | 28 |
| and Connie Wiggins and Lloyd Fredrick and JoAnna Wiggins; his | 29 |
| stepbrother and his wife, Charles Thurston and Shirly Weathers; | 30 |
| and his brothers and sisters-in-law, the Rev. H.K. McKnight and | 31 |
| Margaret McKnight, Jean and Grady Rhoades, and J.T. Corley; he | 32 |
| was preceded in death by his father, Lester Wallace Wiggins, |
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| his stepmother, Mary Wiona Weathers Wiggins; and his | 2 |
| grandchild, Kari Lynn Wiggins; therefore, be it | 3 |
| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-THIRD GENERAL | 4 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 5 |
| Reverend Dr. Jesse Lee Wiggins, and we extend our deepest | 6 |
| sympathy his family, friends, congregation, and all who knew | 7 |
| and loved him; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 9 |
| presented to his family as an expression of our sincere | 10 |
| condolences.
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