Full Text of SR0553 95th General Assembly
SR0553 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of
Maggie Peterson, who passed away on | 4 |
| September 10, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Maggie Peterson was born on December 25, 1912 in | 6 |
| Sulphur Spring, Mississippi; her parents were the late Howard | 7 |
| and Daisy Melton; she was united in holy matrimony to Willie | 8 |
| Peterson; to this union, two children, Leon and Sammie | 9 |
| Peterson, were born; and
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| WHEREAS, At the age of 12, Maggie Peterson confessed her | 11 |
| hope in Christ and joined the Macedonia Baptist Church; her | 12 |
| family moved to Sledge, Mississippi many years later and joined | 13 |
| the St. Phillip Baptist Church; the family moved again, to | 14 |
| Tutwiler, Mississippi, and joined the Mount Zion Baptist | 15 |
| Church, where Ms. Peterson sang with the Doctor Watts Choir in | 16 |
| 1928; later, she moved to Mount Bayou, Louisiana and joined the | 17 |
| Jerusalem Baptist Church, where she was a member of the choir | 18 |
| and Usher Board; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1930, Maggie Peterson moved to Shelby, | 20 |
| Mississippi and joined the Magnolia Baptist Church, where she | 21 |
| served on the mother's board and choir; in 1941, she moved to | 22 |
| Detroit, Michigan and joined the Greater Russell Street Baptist |
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| Church, where she rendered whatever services the congregation | 2 |
| required of her; in 1960, she moved to Gary, Indiana and joined | 3 |
| New Friendship Baptist Church, under the pastorate of Reverend | 4 |
| Benjamin Holmes; and
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| WHEREAS, Maggie Peterson was an accomplished choir singer; | 6 |
| she sang with the choirs of Macedonia Baptist Church, St. | 7 |
| Phillip Baptist Church, Mount Zion Baptist Church's Doctor | 8 |
| Watts Choir, the Jerusalem Baptist Church, Magnolia Baptist | 9 |
| Church, Greater Russell Street Baptist Church, and the New | 10 |
| Friendship Baptist Church; and
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| WHEREAS, Maggie Peterson's love of life and ability to live | 12 |
| it to the fullest endeared her to her family members, friends, | 13 |
| and all who knew her, and enabled her to enrich their lives in | 14 |
| ways they will never forget; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 16 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 17 |
| her family and friends, the passing of Maggie Peterson; and be | 18 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 20 |
| presented to the family of Maggie Peterson as an expression of | 21 |
| our sympathy.
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