Full Text of SR0700 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened | 3 | | to learn of the death of Dr. Herbert Jackson of Rockford, who | 4 | | passed away on December 28, 2021; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Jackson was born on January 24, 1930; after | 6 | | graduating from Chicago's Wendall Phillips High School, he was | 7 | | drafted into the U.S. Army in 1951; he served from December of | 8 | | 1951 until December of 1952 as a corporal assigned to the 8th | 9 | | Army 802nd Engr. Aviation Bn. Co. B and did a tour of duty in | 10 | | Suwon, Korea during the Korean War;
in 1953, he enrolled in | 11 | | Wilson Junior College where he earned an associate's degree | 12 | | and met the love of his life, his future wife Edna Marie | 13 | | Counts; he enrolled in the Chicago Teachers College, now known | 14 | | as Chicago State University, where he graduated with a | 15 | | bachelor's degree; he was then accepted into Podiatry School | 16 | | in 1958; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Jackson began his Rockford podiatry practice | 18 | | in the offices of Dr. Jeffry Ish; while he was building a | 19 | | full-time practice, he also worked for Lowell Hawkinson in | 20 | | recruiting minorities for an employment agency called | 21 | | Availability; he practiced podiatry for 39 years before | 22 | | retiring; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Jackson served as campaign manager for | 2 | | Victory Bell, Rockford's first Black alderman; he supported | 3 | | many community groups, including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, | 4 | | The Taus, Inc., the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Pi Gamma | 5 | | Omega Chapter, Rockford's chapter of Delta Sigma Theta | 6 | | Sorority, Inc., and AARC at Booker; he was a volunteer for the | 7 | | Northern Illinois Diabetes Coalition; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Jackson served as a past member of the | 9 | | Winnebago County Board and the Winnebago County Sheriff and | 10 | | Fire Commission; he was a former vice president for the | 11 | | Winnebago County Health Department Black Health Care | 12 | | Initiative and was a former member of the Rosecrance Board; | 13 | | and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Jackson adored his family, with whom he took | 15 | | cruises and traveled abroad, and enjoyed hiatuses to his condo | 16 | | in Florida; he was a fashionable man who loved buying clothes, | 17 | | shoes, and eye wear; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Jackson was preceded in death by his wife, | 19 | | Edna Marie; his father, Willie Sr.; his mother, Julia | 20 | | Jackson-Clarke; and his brother, Willie Jr.; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Jackson is survived by his son, Christopher | 22 | | Herbert Jackson; his daughter, Kelli Lynn Jackson; his first |
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| 1 | | cousins, Mary Twitty, Julia Simon, James Morgan, Abram Morgan, | 2 | | and Joyce McGowan; and his second cousin, Tonya Butler White; | 3 | | therefore, be it
| 4 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | 5 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of
| 6 | | Dr. Herbert Jackson and extend our sincere
condolences to his | 7 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved
him; and be it | 8 | | further
| 9 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
| 10 | | presented to the family of Dr. Jackson as an expression of
our | 11 | | deepest sympathy.
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