SR0134 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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SENATE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate wish to express their sincere condolences to the family and friends of Mother Rosa Hooker, who passed away on March 29, 2007; and

WHEREAS, Mother Rosa Hooker was born on September 4, 1916 in Ebenezer, Mississippi; her parents were Samuel and Carrie Pickens Whorton; and

WHEREAS, Mother Rosa Hooker accepted Christ as her Savior in 1928 at Franklin Church of God in Christ in Lexington, Mississippi; she became a member in the St. John Church of God in Christ in 1930, where she and her father assisted in the church's construction; she married Arthur Nathaniel Hooker in 1933 and 11 children were born to this union; and

WHEREAS, Mother Rosa Hooker moved to Chicago with her family in 1941; she joined the Lake Street Church of God in Christ, where she was a Sunday School teacher and the Young Women's Christian Council founder and president; and

WHEREAS, In 1952, the family moved southwest and united with Carol Devine Temple Church of God in Christ, where Mother Rosa Hooker served as Sunday school teacher, deaconess, and Sunshine Band leader; later she joined Inspirational Deliverance Center Church of God in Christ; and

WHEREAS, Mother Rosa Hooker returned to Mississippi in 1981, where she assisted in the construction and operation of the St. Matthew Church of God in Christ in Lexington, Mississippi; after her return to Illinois in 1993, she continued her membership at the Inspirational Deliverance Center Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where she served as the building fund captain and Sunday School teacher; and

WHEREAS, Mother Rosa Hooker will be remembered by all her knew and loved her, especially her children, Carrie Dee Coleman (Charles), Lonnie (Mary), Everlena Taylor, Pastor Shirley Hughes, John T. (Kim), Rosemary, and Shadrick; her sister, Martha Mason; her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, her great-great grandchildren, her spiritual daughters, Margaret Harris and Vernon Oliver Price, her nieces, nephews, cousins, relatives, friends, and her church family; she was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Arthur Nathaniel Hooker; her children, Arthur, Charles, Julius, and Jerry; her siblings, William, Alonzo, Rayfield, Garfield, Robert, Samuel Dale, Leanna, Everlena, Lennie, and Earner; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with her family and friends, the passing of Mother Rosa Hooker; and be it further

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