SR1340 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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SENATE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to learn of the death of Annette Reid Nolan, who passed away on January 23, 2022 at the age of 83; and

WHEREAS, Annette Reid Nolan was born to Reverend Milton Prentiss Reid and Myra W. Phelps in Fort Smith, Arkansas on November 23, 1938; and

WHEREAS, Annette Reid Nolan was smart and athletic; she played piano in church and won a statewide singing contest in Virginia; she was crowned homecoming queen her senior year of high school; and

WHEREAS, Annette Reid Nolan lived in Richmond, Virginia and worked at the Bank of Richmond; she went to nursing school at Birmingham Baptist Hospital, met her husband, and participated in the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama; she and her husband moved to Chicago around 1966; and

WHEREAS, Annette Reid Nolan found her calling in psychiatry, working as a psychiatric nurse at Michael Reese Hospital and as a nurse manager on a psychiatric-substance use inpatient unit at the Hines VA Medical Center; and

WHEREAS, Annette Reid Nolan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from St. Xavier University; she loved reading, bird-watching, action movies, football, koi ponds, driving fast, gardening, cooking Indian and Mexican dinners, the Sugar Hill Gang, civic involvement, MSNBC, Stephen Colbert, and watching dolphins swim the Atlantic from her porch perch in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; she offered an accepting, loving ear for one's personal crisis, struggle, or story; and

WHEREAS, At the time of her passing, Annette Reid Nolan was survived by her children, Kisten Devine Nolan and Verdant (Philip Ravia Reid) Nolan; her grandchildren, Nicholas Philip Laughton, Kye (Kisten Leslie) Nolan, Thea Day Atkins, and Kendall Brinkley Laughton; and many nieces and nephews; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of Annette Reid Nolan and extend our sincere condolences to her family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to the family of Annette Reid Nolan as an expression of our deepest sympathy.