Bill Text: GA HR652 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Sims, Marie Smith; celebrate life
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-03-22 - House Read and Adopted [HR652 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-HR652-Introduced.html
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House
Resolution 652
By:
Representatives Williams of the
89th,
Jackson of the
142nd,
Mayo of the
91st,
Brooks of the
63rd,
Bruce of the
64th,
and others
A
RESOLUTION
Celebrating
the life of Marie Smith Sims; and for other purposes.
WHEREAS,
Marie Smith was born in Forest Home, Alabama, a small town of approximately
1,500 residents located about a half hour south of Montgomery, Alabama;
and
WHEREAS,
she was the only child, and when her mother had to go to Atlanta to find work,
she lived with her grandmother in Alabama from her birth until she was nine
years old; and
WHEREAS,
her earliest memories were standing next to her grandmother at the Rock West
Baptist Church singing with the choir, and her very first solo at church was a
gospel song, "You've Got the River of Jordan To Cross"; and
WHEREAS,
in her memory of the day her mother came back to take her to Atlanta, she was in
church, and, for some reason her grandmother refused to let her take her doll to
Atlanta, but she reclaimed after her grandmother's death and kept it the rest of
her life; and
WHEREAS,
as a teenager in Atlanta, she met the love of her life, Daniel Sims, and married
him at the age of 17, and their marriage lasted for 56 years and brought then
two children, a son, who served and died in the Marines in 1970 and a daughter
who raised Marie's two grandsons; and
WHEREAS,
she has devoted a lifetime of service to the Mt. Zion Second Baptist Church, in
1990 she was recognized for 50 years of dedicated service, and in 1999 she was
selected as the Mt. Zion 2rd Baptist Church Woman of the Year; her awards and
recognitions for service to the Lord are too numerous to recount;
and
WHEREAS,
she has kept her love for singing for all her life, starting with the Mt. Zion
junior choir at the age of ten years old, as an original member of the Emory
Riah Searcy choir, and as a recipient of the Certificate of Recognition award
for active and cooperative participation in the choir for 50 years on October
22, 2000; and
WHEREAS,
it is only right and proper that this great Christian lady be honored and
commended for a lifetime of service.
NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the members of
this body honor and commend Marie Smith Sims for her long and fruitful life of
service.
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized
and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to Marie Smith
Sims.
