Bill Text: IL SR1340 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Mourns the death of Annette Reid Nolan.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-12-01 - Resolution Adopted [SR1340 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SR1340-Introduced.html

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SENATE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened
to learn of the death of Annette Reid Nolan, who passed away on
January 23, 2022 at the age of 83; and
WHEREAS, Annette Reid Nolan was born to Reverend Milton
Prentiss Reid and Myra W. Phelps in Fort Smith, Arkansas on
November 23, 1938; and
WHEREAS, Annette Reid Nolan was smart and athletic; she
played piano in church and won a statewide singing contest in
Virginia; she was crowned homecoming queen her senior year of
high school; and
WHEREAS, Annette Reid Nolan lived in Richmond, Virginia
and worked at the Bank of Richmond; she went to nursing school
at Birmingham Baptist Hospital, met her husband, and
participated in the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama; she and
her husband moved to Chicago around 1966; and
WHEREAS, Annette Reid Nolan found her calling in
psychiatry, working as a psychiatric nurse at Michael Reese
Hospital and as a nurse manager on a psychiatric-substance use
inpatient unit at the Hines VA Medical Center; and

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WHEREAS, Annette Reid Nolan earned a Bachelor of Arts in
Art History from St. Xavier University; she loved reading,
bird-watching, action movies, football, koi ponds, driving
fast, gardening, cooking Indian and Mexican dinners, the Sugar
Hill Gang, civic involvement, MSNBC, Stephen Colbert, and
watching dolphins swim the Atlantic from her porch perch in
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; she offered an accepting, loving
ear for one's personal crisis, struggle, or story; and
WHEREAS, At the time of her passing, Annette Reid Nolan
was survived by her children, Kisten Devine Nolan and Verdant
(Philip Ravia Reid) Nolan; her grandchildren, Nicholas Philip
Laughton, Kye (Kisten Leslie) Nolan, Thea Day Atkins, and
Kendall Brinkley Laughton; and many nieces and 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
Annette Reid Nolan 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 Annette Reid Nolan as an expression
of our deepest sympathy.