Full Text of HR0941 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Gollie | 4 | | Mae Rodgers of Chicago, who passed away on March 15, 2014; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Gollie Rodgers was born on August 26, 1946 in | 6 | | Council, Arkansas; her parents were Clinton, Sr. and Beatrice | 7 | | (nee Floyd) Mobley; she married Claymon Rodgers on September | 8 | | 26, 1966 in Chicago; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Gollie Rodgers graduated from Anna Strong High | 10 | | School in Marianna, Arkansas in 1966 and attended Prairie State | 11 | | College in Chicago Heights; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, Gollie Rodgers was employed with Trine Stone | 13 | | Cleaners in Chicago Heights, Four Seasons Nursing Home in Hazel | 14 | | Crest, and ITW Impro in Monkena, where she retired after over | 15 | | 33 years of service; she also worked for the Chicago Heights | 16 | | Park District and worked for many years as secretary of the | 17 | | Mobley Family Reunion; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Gollie Rodgers was a member of Calvary Baptist | 19 | | Church in Chicago Heights from 1973 to 2000, where she served | 20 | | as Sunday school teacher, choir member, and member of the | 21 | | women's missionary department; she was also a member of the |
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| 1 | | First Union Missionary Baptist Church in Ford Heights from 2000 | 2 | | to 2014, where she served as a member of the treasury board, | 3 | | choir member, member of the pastoral care committee, and member | 4 | | of the feeding ministry; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, Gollie Rodgers enjoyed traveling in the United | 6 | | States and abroad and spending time with her family; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, Gollie Rodgers was preceded in death by her | 8 | | husband, Claymon; her daughter, Wanna Joyce; and her parents; | 9 | | and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Gollie Rodgers is survived by her daughters, Wanda | 11 | | and Donna; her grandson, Michael E. Hunter; her granddaughters, | 12 | | Destiny J. and Ericka C. Hunter; her sister, Mary H. (Henry | 13 | | Jr.) Mobley Thompson; her brother, Clinton Mobley, Jr.; her | 14 | | in-laws, Bobby Rodgers and Katherine Edmond; a host of nieces, | 15 | | nephews, and cousins; her First Union Baptist Church family; | 16 | | and her "son", Pastor Dr. Robert M. Foster; therefore, be it
| 17 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 18 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 19 | | we, along with her family and friends, mourn the passing of | 20 | | Gollie Mae Rodgers; and be it further
| 21 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| 1 | | presented to the family of Gollie Rodgers as an expression of | 2 | | our sympathy.
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