Bill Text: IL HR0952 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Karen Susan Elmira Johnson Jones.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Passed) 2022-11-15 - Resolution Adopted [HR0952 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-HR0952-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Karen | ||||||
| 4 | Susan Elmira Johnson Jones, who passed away on September 10, | ||||||
| 5 | 2022; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Karen Jones was born to Claire Yvonne Johnson and | ||||||
| 7 | Alfred Lloyd Johnson Sr. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on | ||||||
| 8 | January 12, 1961; she graduated from Saul W.B. Agricultural | ||||||
| 9 | School in 1978; she earned her Bachelor of Science in | ||||||
| 10 | Chemistry from Beaver College, known today as Arcadia | ||||||
| 11 | University, in 1982; she married Glenn Allen Jones in Fort | ||||||
| 12 | Worth, Texas, and they resided in Gurnee, Illinois; she | ||||||
| 13 | obtained her MBA from the Lake Forest Graduate School of | ||||||
| 14 | Management in 2001; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, Karen Jones worked at Abbott Laboratories, a | ||||||
| 16 | Global Healthcare and Fortune 500 company, for 33 years; she | ||||||
| 17 | retired as Communications and Quality Operations Program | ||||||
| 18 | Manager; during her tenure, she received several awards and | ||||||
| 19 | accolades, and she was a member of several professional | ||||||
| 20 | organizations and committees; and
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| 21 | WHEREAS, Karen Jones committed to her faith at a young | ||||||
| 22 | age; as a child, she was baptized at Pinkett Tabernacle | ||||||
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| 1 | Friendly Methodist Church in North Philadelphia; she was an | ||||||
| 2 | active member of Turning Point Life Church in Kenosha, | ||||||
| 3 | Wisconsin; and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, For 20 years, Karen Jones served as the CEO of The | ||||||
| 5 | Chocolate Chip Association, a STEM/STEAM program based in Lake | ||||||
| 6 | County that has taught thousands of Black and Brown girls | ||||||
| 7 | worldwide in entrepreneurship, aviation, cooking, performing | ||||||
| 8 | arts, robotics, and all things STEAM-related; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, Karen Jones is survived by her husband of 38 | ||||||
| 10 | years, Glenn; her children, Glen Alexander, Christopher Owen, | ||||||
| 11 | and Joy Cassandra; her parents; her brothers, Alfred (Wanda), | ||||||
| 12 | Jeffrey, Timothy (Calencia), and Caleaf; her granddaughters, | ||||||
| 13 | Amira and Nylah; her mother-in-law, Bernice Jones; her | ||||||
| 14 | sister-in-law, Helen Jones; her brothers-in-law, Douglas | ||||||
| 15 | (Regina) Jones and Lawrence Jones; the Spann Clan; the | ||||||
| 16 | McAliley's; her special friends, Saundra Dixon, Lenita Spears, | ||||||
| 17 | Patricia Jones, Betty Peeples, Carla Little, Kimberly Bright, | ||||||
| 18 | Teresa Brown, Lisa Wilkerson, Trechy Beasley, Kay Kneeland, | ||||||
| 19 | Astrid Tompkins, Mori Banks, Rose Lewis, and Sheila Banks; and | ||||||
| 20 | a host of cousins, relatives, family, and friends; therefore, | ||||||
| 21 | be it
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| 22 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 23 | HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
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| 1 | we mourn the passing of Karen Susan Elmira Johnson Jones and | ||||||
| 2 | extend our sincere condolences to her family, friends, and all | ||||||
| 3 | who knew and loved her; and be it further
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| 4 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 5 | presented to the family of Karen Jones as an expression of our | ||||||
| 6 | deepest sympathy.
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