Full Text of SR0389 095th General Assembly
SR0389 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of Floyd Carroll; and
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| WHEREAS, Floyd Edward Carroll was born on March 8, 1927, in | 5 |
| Mobile, Alabama, the sixth of seven children of Katie Crenshaw | 6 |
| Carroll and Morgan Carroll; and
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| WHEREAS, Floyd Carroll's interest in music was cultivated | 8 |
| by his mother, who was a music teacher; she taught him to play | 9 |
| the violin at a very early age; Floyd enjoyed classical music, | 10 |
| jazz, and anthems; Floyd was a lifetime subscriber to the Lyric | 11 |
| Opera; Floyd taught his children to enjoy beautiful music and | 12 |
| the stories behind the music; Floyd Carroll was also an ardent | 13 |
| student of history; he was well versed in African and | 14 |
| African-American History and served as the chairman of the | 15 |
| Civil Rights Committee at Progressive Baptist Church during the | 16 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. era; he was instrumental in convincing | 17 |
| the church members to participate in the Civil Rights Movement; | 18 |
| and
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| WHEREAS, Floyd Carroll graduated from Mobile's Dunbar High | 20 |
| School at the age of 17; he enlisted in the United States Navy | 21 |
| and served his country during World War II; after his honorable | 22 |
| discharge from the Navy he attended the University of Illinois |
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| at Navy Pier; he continued his education at Wilson Jr. College | 2 |
| and Chicago Teachers College, where he earned his degree; and
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| WHEREAS, Floyd Carroll met his wife, Frances Graves, in | 4 |
| 1953; they were joined together in Holy Matrimony on April 22, | 5 |
| 1956; and
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| WHEREAS, Floyd Carroll was initiated into Alpha Phi Alpha | 7 |
| Fraternity in 1957; he was elected president of Theta Chapter | 8 |
| in 1959 and was a life member of Alpha Phi Alpha, celebrating | 9 |
| fifty years as an Alpha in March of 2007; he was active in the | 10 |
| church, beginning as a young child in the A.M.E. church where | 11 |
| he attended Sunday School with his mother; after his naval | 12 |
| service, he joined Cosmopolitan Community Church, where he sang | 13 |
| in the choir; he joined the Progressive Baptist Church and was | 14 |
| invited to join the Teacher Training Class; he taught in the | 15 |
| young adult department of the Sunday School for over fifteen | 16 |
| years and sang in the senior choir; in January of 1970 he and | 17 |
| his family united with the Greater Bethesda Baptist Church; he | 18 |
| was appointed to the Deacon Board in 1970 and remained a member | 19 |
| until his passing; and | 20 |
| WHEREAS, Floyd Carroll was employed by the United States | 21 |
| Postal Service; he retired from the United States Postal | 22 |
| Service in 1999; and |
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Floyd Carroll will be deeply felt | 2 |
| by all those who knew and loved him, especially his wife, | 3 |
| Frances; his son, Floyd; his daughter, Francesca; his sisters, | 4 |
| Marjorie C. Maben, LaRose C. Cobb, and Katrice C. Patterson; | 5 |
| his nieces and nephews, Nicholas Maben, Margo Maben, Angela | 6 |
| Cobb, Bruce Cobb, Katrice Patterson, Paul Patterson, and David | 7 |
| Patterson; his five great-nieces and nephews; and his many | 8 |
| colleagues and friends; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 10 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 11 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Floyd Carroll; and be it | 12 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 14 |
| presented to the family of Floyd Carroll as a symbol of our | 15 |
| sympathy.
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