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HOUSE RESOLUTION


 
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    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of 
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Representatives are saddened to  learn of the death of
Mother 
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Della Louis of North Lawndale, who passed away on June 17, 
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2008; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Mother Della Louis was born on May 28, 1915; she 
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lived in the same home in the North Lawndale community for 63 
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years; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Mother Della Louis was employed at Leadership 
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Cleaners and Sunshine Cleaners; she subsequently retired from 
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the Albany Nursing Home in Chicago; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Mother Della Louis served as an anchor and an 
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activist in the North Lawndale community; she was a dedicated 
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member of the Greater Progressive Baptist Church who served 
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faithfully and with great joy under three pastors, the late 
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Pastor Van B. Watts, the late Pastor H. Y. Linzy, and the 
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current Pastor, Reverend Dr. Eric B. Brown, Sr.;  she sang in 
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the Sr. Choir, served as President of the Mother's Board, and 
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was a member of the Pastor's Aid Society; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Mother Della Louis was a doer of the Word of God 
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whose relationship and love was both vertical and horizontal; 
 


 






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and

 
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    WHEREAS, Mother Della Louis loved and supported her State 
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Representative, the Honorable Arthur L. Turner; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Her desire to help people with any of their 
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concerns knew no bounds to Mother Della Louis, no matter what 
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the cost to herself; therefore, be it

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

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