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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
HONORING MRS. MILDRED AUSTIN KENERSON 100TH BIRTHDAY
WHEREAS, On April 27, 2019, 175 friends and family from across the United States gathered to celebrate Mrs. Mildred Austin Kenerson 100th Birthday at the historic Parkway Ballroom; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Mildred Austin Kenerson, affectionately known as "Red", was born in Braxton (Simpson, County), Mississippi on April 29, 1919 to the late Eddie and Idella Harper Perkins; and
WHEREAS, She was educated in the Rosenwald School for Negro Children and the historic Piney Woods Country Life School founded by Dr. Laurence C. Jones in 1909; and
WHEREAS, while attending Jackson State College (University), she obtained her Teaching Certificate to educate the students in segregated Simpson County; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Mildred Kenerson is a woman of great faith who loves her "Home" Church, St. John Baptist Church in Braxton, Mississippi, which was founded in 1865 by her grandparents and other families from the community. Her only living sibling, Billy Ray Perkins currently serves as a Deacon and Trustee; and
WHEREAS, seeking opportunities in the North, Mrs. Mildred Kenerson relocated to Troy, New York in 1943 where she worked at an Ammunition Plant during World War II. She was a faithful member of Bethel Methodist Church and the Troy, New York Branch of the NAACP; and
WHEREAS, in 1948 she married the late Rowland Austin and had two children, Rowland Austin of Matteson, Illinois and Carolyn Austin of Orlando. Florida; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Mildred Kenerson has been a resident of Chicago's Westside since 1958. She was a member of the New Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church founded by the late Rev. D. B. Bishop where she was active with the Ministers and Deacon's Wives. She later fellow shipped with her sister Mary Lee at Holy Starlight Baptist Church, founded by the late Rev. C. H. Porter, who baptized both of her children; and
WHEREAS, In 1963, she married the late John Dubois Kenerson, President...
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