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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Marian Dockery of North Chicago, who
4 passed away on April 15, 2010; and
 
5     WHEREAS, She was born on June 4, 1932 to Elizabeth and
6 Aaron Brown in Chicago; Marian was one of nine children born to
7 this union; she grew up on the South side of Chicago and at a
8 very young age she accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and
9 Savior; Marian joined First Corinthian Missionary Baptist
10 Church in 1981 under the late Pastor Peter Goudeaux Jr; she was
11 a faithful member for 29 years until her home going under her
12 former Pastor Eugene Roberson; Marian was an active church
13 member and had volunteered her time with the Church's Soup
14 Kitchen ministry; and
 
15     WHEREAS, Marian graduated from Wendell Phillips High
16 School in Chicago in 1950 and shortly thereafter married the
17 love of her life, Alfonso E. Dockery Sr.; she also attended the
18 College of Lake County, where she completed studies in
19 sociology, nutrition, and communications; and
 
20     WHEREAS, Before her retirement in 1987, Marian worked for
21 Baxter Healthcare in Deerfield as an Accounts Payable
22 generalist and retired as the first African-American teller of

 

 

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1 the Baxter Credit Union; from 1998 to 2001, Marian was the
2 Project Success Coordinator for North Chicago School District
3 187 and worked diligently with the local governing board, local
4 community leaders, educators, parents, and State social
5 service agencies in bringing educational and social services
6 and programs to the children and families within the school
7 district; and
 
8     WHEREAS, In 2003 Marian became the Vice-President and
9 bookkeeper of her daughter's business, Meeting Essentials by
10 D'esign, and key advisor to the family business as well; Marian
11 not only loved her immediate family but also extended that love
12 to her community and friends; Marian enjoyed life, sharing and
13 giving to others; she loved sowing the wisdom, knowledge, and
14 love that God gave her into the hearts of everyone she came in
15 contact with, especially youth; and
 
16     WHEREAS, Marian was preceded in her home going transition
17 by her beloved husband, Alfonso E. Dockery Sr.; her parents,
18 Elizabeth and Aaron Brown; her sisters, Altherea Watson, Bertha
19 and Elizabeth Brown, and Vera Conner; her brother, Aaron
20 "Junior" Brown; her great-nephew, Benjamin Miller; her niece,
21 Dephine Sanders; and her nephews, Darrell and Cornell Sanders
22 Jr. and Lemuel Henry Chambers; and
 
23     WHEREAS, Left to cherish her loving memory are her son,

 

 

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1 Alfonso Eugene Dockery Jr.; her daughters, Cynthia Renee
2 Dockery and Angela Marie Dockery; her brothers, Edward, James
3 (Johnnie) Brown, Robert (Trudy) Brown, and Charles Brown; her
4 very best and dearest friend of over 55 years, Mary Hamilton;
5 her special God-Grandson, Essex Johns IV; her church family;
6 and a host of nieces, nephews, friends, and her lovable
7 110-pound puppy-dog, "Sparkie"; therefore, be it
 
8     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL
9 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
10 her family and friends, the passing of Marian Dockery; and be
11 it further
 
12     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
13 presented to the family of Marian Dockery as a symbol of our
14 sincere sympathy.