SLS 15RS-2738 ORIGINAL
2015 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 166
BY SENATOR BROOME
COMMENDATIONS. Commends Ms. Irma Lloyd Brown on her 90th birthday.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To commend and congratulate Ms. Irma Lloyd Brown on her 90th birthday.
3 WHEREAS, Ms. Brown was born on June 6, 1925, in Torvin, Louisiana, in
4 Livingston Parish; and
5 WHEREAS, she received her education at Louisiana schools including Scott Street
6 School, Mckinley High School, Leland College, and Southern University; and
7 WHEREAS, she became an educator and teacher for thirty-two years at Dawson
8 High School and St. Francisville High School where she taught English and coached girls
9 basketball; and
10 WHEREAS, Ms. Brown is a woman of strong faith and has worshiped as a member
11 of Donaldson Chapel Baptist Church for eighty years and served as the announcement clerk
12 for seventy years; and
13 WHEREAS, Ms. Brown has lead a very proactive life and continues to participate
14 in civic organizations while making a lasting impression on her community; and
15 WHEREAS, she is a member of the Leland College Alumni Association, a founding
16 board member of Shiloh Baptist Church Credit Union, and one of the first African
17 Americans to register to vote in East Baton Rouge Parish in 1944; and
18 WHEREAS, her parents never had the opportunity to exercise this fundamental right
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1 so after the Supreme Court declared that blacks shall have the right to register to vote she,
2 along with a few of her friends, were among the first African Americans to register; and
3 WHEREAS, to this day, she has not missed one election since she obtained the right
4 to vote and makes it her personal business to ensure that others around her exercise their
5 right; and
6 WHEREAS, Ms. Brown is full of spunk and still leads a very active life by working
7 out three times a week, swimming, collecting clocks, and cooking three hot meals everyday;
8 and
9 WHEREAS, she also enjoys traveling and always has a bag packed and ready to take
10 the next trip; and
11 WHEREAS, the love of her life was the late Emile J. Brown and although she never
12 biologically bore children she has been a surrogate mother to countless children who love
13 her more than words can express.
14 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
15 does hereby commend and congratulate Ms. Irma Lloyd Brown on her 90th birthday and on
16 the many lives she has touched across the state.
17 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to Ms.
18 Irma Lloyd Brown.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by J. Ashley Mitchell Carter.
DIGEST
SR 166 Original 2015 Regular Session Broome
Commends Ms. Irma Lloyd Brown on her 90th birthday.
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