Bill Text: IL SR0252 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Mourns the death of Waynona Newcom Brown.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-04-29 - Resolution Adopted [SR0252 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SR0252-Introduced.html

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SENATE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened
to learn of the death of Waynona Brown of Champaign; and
WHEREAS, Waynona Brown was born to Wayne and Yetiva Morgan
Newcom in Benton, Kansas on June 23, 1921; following public
school in Haven and Pretty Prairie, Kansas, she attended
Kansas State Teachers College at Pittsburg, Kansas; she
graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Education with a major
in mathematics and minors in commerce, English and speech; she
subsequently attended the School of Social Service
Administration at the University of Chicago in 1946 with a Red
Cross scholarship; she earned a Master of Arts in Social Work
from the University of Chicago in 1953; she married Richard M.
Brown in 1962; and
WHEREAS, Waynona Brown first worked as a teacher at high
schools in Haven, Planeview, and Pretty Praire, Kansas; she
worked for the Chicago Chapter of the American Red Cross from
1947 to 1948 and the Kansas Children's Service League in
Wichita and Coffeyville, Kansas from 1948 to 1953; in 1953,
she moved to Champaign to become the supervisor of the
Champaign office of the Illinois Children's Home and Aid
Society where she remained until 1962; from 1976 until her
retirement in 1984, she was the agency and institution

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licensing representative for the Champaign region of the
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services; and
WHEREAS, Waynona Brown was involved in a number of
volunteer activities; prior to her marriage, she was active in
the local chapter of the National Association of Social
Workers, a board member of the United Community Council and of
the Volunteer Bureau, and a member of the Children's and
Unmarried Mothers committees; between 1960 and 1990, she was a
board member of Cunningham Children's Home in Urbana, where
she also served for many years as chairman of the Personnel
Committee; she volunteered at the Planned Parenthood
Association of Champaign County from 1966 to 1967 and was a
board member from 1986 to 1989; she was a member of the
Children's Home and Aid Society Auxiliary from 1963 to 2003,
served on the board of directors of the Child Care Association
of Illinois from 1968 to 1974, served on the board of directors
for the Children's Planning Consortium of Illinois during its
organizational period from 1973 to 1974, and was chairwoman of
the Champaign Area Public-Private Agency Planning Committee
from 1974 to 1976; and
WHEREAS, Waynona Brown was preceded in death by her
husband; her parents; her son, Peter; her brother; her two
sisters; her two nieces; and her one nephew; and

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WHEREAS, Waynona Brown is survived by two sons, Alan W.
Brown and Stephen H. Brown; her daughter, Kathryn L.
Blackwood; four grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; five
great-great-grandchildren; and five 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
Waynona Brown 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 Waynona Brown as an expression of
our deepest sympathy.