Bill Text: IL SR0193 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Katie Bell Jackson-Booker.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-04-12 - Resolution Adopted [SR0193 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SR0193-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | ||||||
3 | learn of the death of Katie Bell Jackson-Booker, who passed | ||||||
4 | away on March 22, 2013; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Katie Jackson-Booker was born on September 7, | ||||||
6 | 1941, in Natchez, Mississippi; her parents were Charles and | ||||||
7 | Mary Russell Green; she married Fred Jackson, Jr. in June of | ||||||
8 | 1958; she later married Melvin Booker in December of 1978; and
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9 | WHEREAS, Katie Jackson-Booker spent her early years in | ||||||
10 | Mississippi and attended Mississippi Valley State and Alcorn | ||||||
11 | University; she and her family moved from Natchez to Dixmoor in | ||||||
12 | September of 1962; and
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13 | WHEREAS, Katie Jackson-Booker served for over 37 years in | ||||||
14 | positions of increasing responsibility for Cook County Health | ||||||
15 | Systems, culminating as a hospital health administrator at the | ||||||
16 | time of her retirement in 2010; after her retirement, she | ||||||
17 | continued working with civic organizations such as Roseland | ||||||
18 | Cease Fire, the Chicago Public Schools Safe Passage program, | ||||||
19 | and the Nehemiah Restoration Coalition; and
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20 | WHEREAS, Katie Jackson-Booker began her active service in | ||||||
21 | community affairs by leading a cause for a new traffic light to |
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1 | improve safety for the children in the West Harvey/Dixmoor | ||||||
2 | School District; she went on to become active in community | ||||||
3 | groups such as PTO, Lunch Moms, Cub Scouts, and the Dixmoor | ||||||
4 | Little League; she later began serving as President of the | ||||||
5 | local American Federation of State, County, and Municipal | ||||||
6 | Employees (AFSCME) council at Oak Forest Hospital; she was an | ||||||
7 | active member of the Thornton Township Regular Democratic | ||||||
8 | Organization, participated in its annual Thanksgiving Dinner | ||||||
9 | every year, and was named one of their "Women of the Year" in | ||||||
10 | 2011; in 1971, she was elected to the Board of Education for | ||||||
11 | West Harvey/Dixmoor School District 147, where she served for | ||||||
12 | over 40 years; she served as a Trustee of South Suburban | ||||||
13 | College District 510 for 19 years; she was deeply committed to | ||||||
14 | quality public education opportunities and served as Chair of | ||||||
15 | the Black Caucus of the National School Board Association; she | ||||||
16 | was also an active member of the National Association of Black | ||||||
17 | School Educators and the Illinois and National School Board | ||||||
18 | Associations; and
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19 | WHEREAS, Katie Jackson-Booker was raised as a Christian | ||||||
20 | from childhood and was an inaugural member of St. Mark | ||||||
21 | Missionary Baptist Church; she dutifully educated her family in | ||||||
22 | Christian doctrine and was a choir member; and
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23 | WHEREAS, Katie Jackson-Booker was the recipient of | ||||||
24 | numerous awards and recognitions; in 2012, Vail Street in |
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1 | Harvey was renamed in her honor; she was also an Eastern Star | ||||||
2 | member of the St. John Lodge Queen of Sheba Chapter; and
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3 | WHEREAS, Katie Jackson-Booker was preceded in death by her | ||||||
4 | father, Charles Green; her mother, Mary Savier; her son, Kelvin | ||||||
5 | Trent; her husband, Melvin Booker; her granddaughter, Salissa; | ||||||
6 | her cousin, Maurice Stewart; and her extended family, Jackie | ||||||
7 | Harris, Allison Hall, and Robert Jones; and
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8 | WHEREAS, Katie Jackson-Booker is survived by her children, | ||||||
9 | Bobby (Renita), Gregory (Sharon), Marrion (Benard), Reginald | ||||||
10 | (Barbara), Melvin Leander, and Sheila O'Bryant; her | ||||||
11 | grandchildren, Tiffane (Kelly), Justin, Imani, Christopher, | ||||||
12 | DeAndrea, John, Makayla, Marna, Megan, Matthew, Chalessa, | ||||||
13 | Michela, Charles, and Derrick; her great-grandchildren, | ||||||
14 | Kameron, Katelyn, Kelly Jr., Khalila, and Makayla; and her | ||||||
15 | extended family, Velma Jackson, Gladyse (Bernard) Taylor, | ||||||
16 | Michael, Steven, and Robbyn Hall, DeLeon (Ieshia) Duckworth, | ||||||
17 | Mary (Kaiser) Wright, Della Patterson, Dorothy Jones, Clara | ||||||
18 | Henry, Maurice Ricardo, and Effrem Contrel Stewart; therefore, | ||||||
19 | be it
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20 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL | ||||||
21 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | ||||||
22 | her family and friends, the passing of Katie Bell | ||||||
23 | Jackson-Booker; and be it further
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1 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
2 | presented to the family of Katie Jackson-Booker as an | ||||||
3 | expression of our sympathy.
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