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Genevieve Williams
Genevieve was born and raised on the south side of Chicago. She attended school in the fifties and sixties. She had three children, a daughter Jennean and two sons Allan and Eric. She also has six ...view moreGenevieve was born and raised on the south side of Chicago. She attended school in the fifties and sixties. She had three children, a daughter Jennean and two sons Allan and Eric. She also has six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. She discovered at an early age that she had a unique writing ability. She had a gift to not only write poems but to poetically be able to describe people or situations. She described all of her children’s attributes physically while describing each of their personalities. She didn’t realize that this very gift would be utilized toward friends and relatives and for complete strangers whom sometimes asked would she pay tribute to their loved ones poetically. She believes this is how R.I.P. was born. She was mortified by the violence and young lives lost but began to write about them from 2009 until 2014. Of course all are not included. That would have been impossible.
Also included are individuals who drowned and others who did not succumb to violence on the street but still will be missed by their family and friends.
She remembers being mortified by the old westerns where one gunslinger challenged another to a shootout and they both ended up counting down until one of them got shot and killed. She used to think thank God I’m not living in those times. Then in the seventies she became aware of gang presence in Chicago. Then in 2008 it escalated. She decided to publish a book of tributes to their lives. However, it was so many deaths she couldn’t keep up with them. It became overwhelmingly sad to observe the violence on Chicago streets and she focused on the some and could not write tributes for all of them. She hopes to one day be able to include others in a second book.
Genevieve works for the Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago and lives in a relatively quiet area in a condo on the south side of Chicago. She is a line dancer. She is an avid reader and homebody.view less