Bill Text: IL SR0767 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Mourns the death of Julia Louise Yarbrough.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Passed) 2014-01-29 - Resolution Adopted [SR0767 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SR0767-Introduced.html

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SENATE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
learn of the death of Julia Louise Yarbrough, who passed away
on December 28, 2013; and
WHEREAS, Julia Yarbrough was born on September 22, 1953;
her parents were Rayford Maye and Louise Johnson; and
WHEREAS, Julia Yarbrough confessed her belief in Christ at
an early age and joined Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Coatopa,
Alabama; after leaving Alabama, she met Rayfield Yarbrough Sr.
in the early 1970s; she later joined a loving fellowship with
the Gideon Missionary Baptist Church in Waukegan for 43 years,
where she served and was a faithful and loyal member of the
Christian Education Ministry, the First Aide Ministry, the
Youth Ministry, and the Deaconess Board; she and her husband
later moved to Florence, Alabama, where she served as a mother
at Ekklesia Ministries; and
WHEREAS, Julia Yarbrough worked for Abbott Laboratory for
32 years until her retirement in 2005; and
WHEREAS, Julia Yarbrough was preceded in death by her
father; her grandmother, Addie B. Harris; her aunts, Katie Mae
Moore and Renissa Miller; her uncle, William Miller; her

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grandparents, Johnnie Miller, Sr. and Katie Miller; her
sister-in-law, Rosie Lee Yarbrough; her nephew, Michael
Spears; and her sister, Ruthie Maye; and
WHEREAS, Julia Yarbrough is survived by her husband of 42
years, Rayfield Yarbrough, Sr.; her son, Rev. Rayfield
Yarbrough, Jr. (Qiana); her daughters, Porsha Edwards
(Michael) and Candra Yarbrough (Kendrid); her mother; her
brothers, Roy Green, James Finch, Mack Miller, Larry Miller,
Marshall Johnson, Mark Johnson, Rodney Maye, Keenan Maye, and
Shay Maye; her sisters, Gail Johnson, Judy Johnson, Lisa
Ramsey, Tasha Stevenson, Egypt Johnson, Regina Maye, Rayeanne
Cunningham, Ratanya Wiker, and Bonnie Santiago; her
grandchildren, Jalen Yarbrough, Jordan Yarbrough, Raven
Edwards, Jeremiah Wheeler-Yarbrough, and Brooklyn Edwards; her
dearest cousins, Josephine Woods, Min. Carrie Moore, Ruby Mae
West, William Miller, Rev. Richard Miller, and Louis Sellers;
her dearest friends, Thelma Williams, Dora King and Cassie
Gray, Verner Duty, Cecilia Pryor, and Annie White; and her
adopted children, Carla Baldwin, Keyosha Emerson, Apostle and
Pastor Fitzgerald and their daughters, Willie (Kendra)
Rounsaville, Robert (Sharlett) James, Alvin (Seren) Young, and
Theo Allen; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with her

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family and friends, mourn the passing of Julia Louise
Yarbrough; and be it further
RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
presented to the family of Julia Yarbrough as an expression of
our sympathy.