Full Text of HR1122 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Northica | 4 | | Hillery-Stone of Bellwood, who passed away on May 16, 2018; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, Northica Hillery-Stone graduated from Washington | 6 | | Elementary School and Proviso East High
Schools in Maywood; she | 7 | | attended Roosevelt University, DePaul University, and Fisk
| 8 | | University, and holds a certificate in Community Law from the | 9 | | John Marshall School of Law; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Northica Hillery-Stone was a lifelong member of | 11 | | the Second Baptist Church; at the age of 15, she was elected as | 12 | | director of the Second Baptist Adult Gospel Chorus and served | 13 | | in that position for over 25
years; she served in many other | 14 | | capacities, including Sunday school
national delegate, | 15 | | soloist, president of the Hayden Memorial Scholarship | 16 | | Committee, Women's
Day speaker, and seminar facilitator; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, Northica Hillery-Stone was the longtime head of | 18 | | the nonprofit Operation Uplift, founded by her husband in 1968; | 19 | | and | 20 | | WHEREAS, Northica Hillery-Stone was a longtime community | 21 | | activist, beginning as a charter member of Maywood's First
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| 1 | | NAACP Youth Council; she represented the area at one of the | 2 | | first "Marches on
Washington" rallies in 1949; she founded the | 3 | | West Town Museum of Cultural History in Maywood, where she | 4 | | served for decades as the chief archivist; the West Town opened | 5 | | in 1995 as a division of Operation Uplift and has become a | 6 | | gathering place for various community events and social | 7 | | functions; she and her staff were featured in the Chicago | 8 | | Tribune
for discovering the Ten Mile Freedom House Underground | 9 | | Railroad site in Maywood and their efforts to erect a permanent | 10 | | memorial in Maywood; she was also
responsible for obtaining a | 11 | | historic preservation status for the home and street where | 12 | | famed
chemist Dr. Percy L. Julian lived while residing in | 13 | | Maywood, Percy L. Julian Way; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Northica Hillery-Stone and her husband, George, | 15 | | organized block clubs, and were active in local Boy
Scout Troop | 16 | | 123 and served as P.T.O parents; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, Northica Hillery-Stone received many awards for | 18 | | her endeavors, including recognition from the
Chicago United | 19 | | Way, Quaker Oats, the McDonald's Black Owners Association, the | 20 | | Mahogany
Foundation, WVON The Talk of Chicago, the National | 21 | | Council of Negro Women, Dr. Dorothy
Height, Congressman Danny | 22 | | K. Davis, the National Association of Colored Women and Aunt
| 23 | | Jemima Brands, Cook Country Presidents' John H. Stroger Jr. and | 24 | | Toni Preckwinkle, the Osco Jewel
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| 1 | | Community, Who's Who In American Executives, and former
| 2 | | Presidents' George W. Bush and Bill Clinton; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, Northica Hillery-Stone is the mother of two sons, | 4 | | the late Theophilous Scott Jr. and George Ellis Stone II; | 5 | | therefore, be it
| 6 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 7 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 8 | | mourn the passing of Northica Hillery-Stone, and extend our | 9 | | sincere condolences to her family, friends, and all who knew | 10 | | and loved her; and be it further
| 11 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 | | presented to the family of Northica Hillery-Stone as an | 13 | | expression of our deepest sympathy.
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