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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3learn of the death of Katherine I. Higginbottom, who recently
4passed away; and
 
5    WHEREAS, She was born on November 20, 1923, the first child
6of Ulysses and Pearl Skaggs; she was cared for as a youngster
7by her paternal grandparents, Ellen and William Tetter, on
8their farm in Hopkins Park; and
 
9    WHEREAS, As she grew she continued to help her grandparents
10on the farm, developing a love for animals and a serious
11industriousness; she would help pick blueberries, raise the
12animals, cut out paper dolls, and play mumbley peg with a
13pocket knife; and
 
14    WHEREAS, She graduated from St. Anne High School in St.
15Anne, and walked alone down the aisle at graduation because her
16white classmate would not walk with her; she later went on a
17double date with her sister and Elzie Higginbottom; she
18pronounced that she would rather be reading than be on the date
19but things went smoothly and together Elzie and she shared 60
20years of wedded bliss; and
 
21    WHEREAS, She worked at the Joliet Arsenal, stacking mortar

 

 

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1rounds and eventually being promoted to a clerical position;
2during this time she and her husband ran a small produce store,
3where she sold fish; in 1956, her husband opened a laundromat
4known as the Morgan Park Laundromat, which is still in
5operation today; and
 
6    WHEREAS, She was preceded in death by her husband; her 3
7sisters and her 3 brothers; and
 
8    WHEREAS, Katherine Higginbottom is survived by her sons,
9Elzie Jr. (Deborah) and Eric (Shontae); her grandchildren,
10William, Carter, Caroline, and Parker; her sisters and
11brothers, Vivian Lee, Madaline Skaggs Graves, Roy Skaggs,
12Kenneth Skaggs, Joan C. Wells, and Sandra Sangster; a host of
13nieces and nephews, grand-nieces, and grand-nephews;
14therefore, be it
 
15    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL
16ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
17her family and friends, the passing of Katherine I.
18Higginbottom; and be it further
 
19    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
20presented to the family of Katherine I. Higginbottom as a
21symbol of our sincere sympathy.