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SENATE RESOLUTION


 
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    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to 
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learn of the death of Mae Anita Leverett of Chicago, who passed 
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away on February 7, 2009; and

 
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    WHEREAS, She was born of January 12, 1918 in Augusta, 
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Georgia to the late Mary and William Brown; she accepted Jesus 
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Christ as her Savior at an early age; she was a graduate of 
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Haines High School and Spellman College in Atlanta, Georgia, 
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where she majored in education; and

 
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    WHEREAS, She taught students in junior high school in the 
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Augusta schools; during her time teaching, she met and married 
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George Taylor Leverett and together they had five children; and

 
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    WHEREAS, She moved with her family to Chicago in 1947 and 
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found employment with the Spiegel Company; she retired as Lead 
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Operator after thirty-seven years with the company, and was 
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given one of the largest retirement parties in the history of 
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the company for her years of outstanding service; and

 
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    WHEREAS, She was preceded in death by her husband, George; 
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her sisters, Willa, Ester, and Eleanor; her brother, William; 
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and her youngest son, Tyrone; and

 
 


 






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    WHEREAS, Mae Anita Leverett is survived by her son, George 
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(Shirley); her daughters, Betty Cobbs, Paulette Nash, and 
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Minister Annette Clemons (Lloyd); her play-daughters, Nadine 
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McKinnor, Debra Lewis, and Mary Reed (Ruben); her fourteen 
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grandchildren; her twenty-one great-grandchildren; and a host 
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of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends; therefore, be it

 
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    RESOLVED, BY THE  SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL 
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ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with 
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her family and friends, the passing of Mae Anita Leverett; and 
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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 Mae Anita Leverett as a symbol of 
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our sincere sympathy.