Bill Text: IL SR2144 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Equellia Nancy Woods.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-11-16 - Resolution Adopted [SR2144 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SR2144-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 Equellia Nancy Woods, who passed away on | ||||||
| 4 | July 26, 2016; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Equellia Woods was born on April 21, 1918 in | ||||||
| 6 | Newnan, Georgia; her parents were Paul and Victoria Powell; in | ||||||
| 7 | her early teenage years, she left school to help support her | ||||||
| 8 | family doing domestic work in and around Anniston, Alabama; she | ||||||
| 9 | returned to school in 1977 to earn her General Education | ||||||
| 10 | Diploma; she married Henry Woods on February 6, 1942; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Equellia Woods and her husband, Henry, moved to | ||||||
| 12 | Chicago's Bronzeville area during the Great Migration of the | ||||||
| 13 | late 1940s; they became members of St. John Baptist Church; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, After working at numerous jobs that were | ||||||
| 15 | recommended by friends, Equellia Woods graduated from the | ||||||
| 16 | National Institute of Nursing in Chicago on June 12, 1949; she | ||||||
| 17 | began her nursing career at Providence Hospital in Chicago and | ||||||
| 18 | began to provide private nursing services to a group of elite | ||||||
| 19 | clients; she cared for many lawyers, business entrepreneurs, | ||||||
| 20 | and judges; in the late 1950s, she was hired to care for | ||||||
| 21 | philanthropist Edith B. Wells, who eventually became more than | ||||||
| 22 | just a client as she provided lawyers to assist Equellia and | ||||||
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| 1 | her husband with the purchase of their home in 1959; after | ||||||
| 2 | Edith B. Wells passed away in 1981, she continued to assist | ||||||
| 3 | clients until her retirement in 1986; and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, Equellia Woods was preceded in death by her | ||||||
| 5 | husband, Henry Woods, and her siblings, Charles Powell, Ruby | ||||||
| 6 | Woods, George Powell, Elnora Ross, Mattie Toney, and Willie | ||||||
| 7 | Powell; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, Equellia Woods is survived by her sisters, Lola | ||||||
| 9 | Abbney, Francella Boyd, and Julia Johnson; her children, Paula | ||||||
| 10 | Scott, Edward (Tammie) Boyd, and John (Patricia) Boyd; her | ||||||
| 11 | grandchildren, Victoria, Cencere, Kenya, and Triniti Scott; | ||||||
| 12 | her son-in-law, Kenny Scott; and many nieces, nephews, cousins, | ||||||
| 13 | and neighbors; therefore, be it
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| 14 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 15 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with his | ||||||
| 16 | family and friends, mourn the passing of Equellia Nancy Woods; | ||||||
| 17 | and be it further
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| 18 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 19 | presented to the family of Equellia Woods as an expression of | ||||||
| 20 | our sympathy.
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