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 1                          SENATE RESOLUTION

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

 5        WHEREAS, Mrs. Curry was one of eleven  children  born  to
 6    Tobe  and  Roxie  Davis on June 2, 1933 in Georgia; she was a
 7    highly educated woman,  having  attended  college  at  Morris
 8    Brown  in Atlanta, Georgia, earned a Bachelor of Arts in Home
 9    Economics at Fort Valley State in Fort Valley, Georgia, and a
10    degree in Higher  Education/Administration  from  St.  Xavier
11    University in Chicago; and

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

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

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

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

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

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