Gold Star Family Pins Rank on National Guard Colonel and Friend
Col. Beth Roxworthy learned lessons throughout her life and military career.
From her parents, she learned her core morals and to treat other people with dignity and respect. During her 13 years as an enlisted Soldier, she learned the values of friendship and camaraderie. With each level of command, she learned new lessons on leadership, accountability, empathy, and compassion.
And from the family of Sgt. Simone Robinson, she learned the meaning of sacrifice.
Roxworthy, the Commander of the Illinois Army National Guard's Chicago-based 34th Division Sustainment Brigade, was promoted to colonel on Friday, June 21, in Chicago.
Her parents, Donald and Jo Ellen Roxworthy of Crystal Lake, pinned the colonel rank on their daughter's left side. Gold Star mother, Regina Byther, and daughter, Nyzia Wilson, pinned the rank on Roxworthy's right side. Nyzia's mother, Sgt. Simone Robinson of Dixmoor, Illinois, died on March 1, 2009, at Brooke Army Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, from wounds suffered when her security post was attacked with an explosive device on Jan. 17, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Sgt. Robinson served under Roxworthy's company command in the 634th Brigade Support Battalion. After her death, Roxworthy and Sgt. Robinson's family became friends.
Maj. Gen. Rodney Boyd, the 41st Adjutant General for Illinois and Commander of the Illinois National Guard, promoted Roxworthy and administered her Oath of Office. The promotion was held in the conference rooms of Jenner & Block Law Firm on the 45th Floor of 353 North Clark Street in Chicago, overlooking Lake Michigan.
Roxworthy lives in Rochester, Illinois, and is a native of Crystal Lake, Illinois.
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