MEMORIAL-JOANNE M. WATKINS

This Senate Resolution honors the life of Joane Margaret Watkins, a community volunteer and matriarch from Chicago, following her recent death. The bill formally recognizes her extensive service, including over 50,000 volunteer hours and receiving awards from former Presidents Obama and Biden, while noting her lineage as a descendant of a freed slave. It expresses the Senate's condolences to her surviving family and directs that a copy of the resolution be presented to them as a gesture of sympathy.