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 1                          SENATE RESOLUTION

 2        WHEREAS,   The   members   of   the   Senate    of    the
 3    Ninety-Third  General  Assembly of the State of Illinois were
 4    saddened to  learn  of  the death of Dorothy Ruth Davis Curry
 5    on July 15, 2003; and

 6        WHEREAS, Mrs. Curry was a highly-educated  woman,  having
 7    attended  college at Morris Brown in Atlanta, Georgia, having
 8    earned a Bachelor of Arts in Home Economics from Fort  Valley
 9    State  in  Fort  Valley,  Georgia,  and  a  degree  in Higher
10    Education/Administration  from  St.  Xavier   University   in
11    Chicago; and

12        WHEREAS,  Mrs.  Curry  was married to Lacey Kirk Curry on
13    September 28, 1952 at Wolf Creek Line Baptist Church, and was
14    the mother of four children, Lacey Kirk Seneca, Donald Eugene
15    "D.C.", Theresa Lynne, and Augustus Tobe Curry; and

16        WHEREAS, Mrs. Curry was a housewife for fifty-one  years,
17    while  still  maintaining an educational career at elementary
18    schools in Georgia, Colorado, Utah, and  Illinois,  and  high
19    schools  in  California;  in  addition,  she  was Director of
20    Emmanuel Christian School in Chicago; and

21        WHEREAS, Mrs. Curry's hobbies included  sewing,  cooking,
22    flowers,  gardening,  and traveling; her aspirations were the
23    glory of God, the well  being  of  her  husband,  family  and
24    friends,  the  education of children, the hopes and dreams of
25    young married couples,  and  the  care  of  the  aged,  which
26    prompted  her  to  organize the "Golden Agers" of her church;
27    and

28        WHEREAS, Mrs. Curry's passing will be deeply felt by many
29    especially her husband, the Reverend  L.K.  Curry;  her  four
30    children  and  their  spouses, Lacy Seneca, Donald Eugene and
31    Veronica, Theresa Curry and Rev. Kenneth Battle, and Augustus
 
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 1    Tobe and  Tonya;  her  nine  grandchildren,  Seneca  Charles,
 2    Julius Clark, Brittany Ryan, Jillian Anice, Henry Louis, John
 3    Lacy,  and Delane Monique; her brothers Ralph (Jessie) Davis,
 4    Rudolph (Annette) Davis, and David Davis; and her many nieces
 5    and nephews; therefore be it

 6        RESOLVED, BY  THE  SENATE  OF  THE  NINETY-THIRD  GENERAL
 7    ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the death of
 8    Dorothy Ruth Davis Curry; and be it further

 9        RESOLVED,  That  a suitable copy of  this  resolution  be
10    presented to the family of Dorothy Ruth  Davis  Curry  as  an
11    expression of our sorrow for their loss.