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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, Family and friends are mourning the loss of Helen |
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Ann Wade of Jacksonville, who died on March 15, 2009, at the age of |
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57; and |
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WHEREAS, Born on August 20, 1951, to Joyce and John R. Barber, |
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Helen Wade was a graduate of Jacksonville High School; she pursued a |
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career in the financial services industry, working for Texas Bank |
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and Trust for 25 years and, more recently, as a field representative |
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with Woodmen of the World; she also was a substitute teacher; and |
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WHEREAS, Throughout her life, Mrs. Wade was actively engaged |
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in the life of her community, and she was involved with the PTA, the |
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Boy Scouts, the Quarterback Club, the Career Women's Civic Club, |
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Junior Achievement, United Fund, and the Cherokee County Red Cross, |
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among others; she was chair of the March of Dimes, Heart Walk, and |
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Western Week, and she was an officer of the Jacksonville Soccer |
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Association, lodge secretary of Woodmen of the World for 25 years, |
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and a member of the board of directors of the chamber of commerce; |
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and |
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WHEREAS, For her tireless efforts in behalf of Jacksonville, |
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she was recognized as Businesswoman of the Year by the chamber of |
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commerce, and on two occasions she was named Woman of the Year by |
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the Career Women's Civic Club; and |
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WHEREAS, Helen Wade was a loving wife and a devoted mother and |
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grandmother who was proud to live on a farm that had been in her |
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family for more than a century; although she was taken much too |
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soon, the memory of her courage, optimism, and community spirit |
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will live forever in the hearts of all those who cared for her; now, |
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therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 81st Texas |
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Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of Helen Ann Wade and |
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extend sincere condolences to the members of her family: to her |
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husband of 39 years, Stanley Wade; to her mother, Joyce Barber; to |
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her daughter, Wendy Wade; to her son, Greg Wade, and his wife, |
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Elizabeth; to her granddaughters, Brooklyn Hunter and Lauren Wade; |
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and to her other relatives and friends; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for her family and that when the Texas House of |
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Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Helen Ann |
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Wade. |