SR 24 — Celebrating the life of the Reverend Gary Michael Roberts.

SESSION INTRODUCEDENROLLED 22106643D SENATE RESOLUTION NO.

24 IE Offered February 24, 2022 N Celebrating the life of the Reverend Gary Michael Roberts.

TN ––––––––––Agreed Patron––Hackworthto by the Senate, March 3, 2022 R O WHEREAS, the Reverend Gary Michael Roberts, a dedicated religious leader and highly admired OmemWHEREAS, membera lifelong resident of theTazewell County, Michael "Mike" Roberts graduated from L Richlands High School and Cedarwas Bluffone communities,of diedthe onfirst Maystudents 13,to 2021;major in business administration at L Southwest Virginia Community College;

and DE WHEREAS,Boyd aConstruction; lifelong resident of Tazewell County, Michael "Mike" Roberts graduated from Richlands High School and was one of the first students to major in business administration at U Southwest Virginia Community College;

and C Boyd Construction;

andEand D WHEREAS, Mike Roberts began to cultivate his deep and abiding faith at a young age and became a lay preacher and evangelist at Richlands Tabernacle;

he subsequently became the pastor of Westside HolWHEREAS, over the course of his long career as a minister, Mike Roberts also served and supported young people as a founding member of the Southwest Virginia Holiness ChurchYouth Camp, also known as CamWHEREAS, Mike Roberts was an avid reader and a passionate historian and scholar, who spent much of his life building a library of Christian works that was second to none in Raven;the area;

and R WHEREAS, overpredeceased theby coursehis offirst hiswife, longDebra, careerMike asRoberts awill minister,be Mikefondly Robertsremembered alsoand servedE his stepchildren, Marthanna and supportedAshley, Campand Golan;their families;

and anumerous foundingother memberfamily ofmembers theandiliRs; Southwest Virginia Holiness Youth Camp, also known as WHEREAS, Mike Roberts was an avid reader and a passionate historian and scholar, who spent much of his life building a library of Christian works that was second to none in the area;

and WHEREAS, predeceased by his first wife, Debra, Mike Roberts will be fondly remembered and greatly missed by his loving wife, Connie;

his sons, Aaron, Jonathan, and Benjamin, and their fRmilies;

now, therefore, be itdit Ashley,RESOLVED, andThat theirthe families;Senate of Virginia hereby note with great sadness the loss of the Reverend GarRESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the Senate prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the family of the Reverend Gary Michael Roberts as an expression of the Senate of Virginia's respect for his memory.

and numerous other family members a4d RESOLVED, That the Senate of Virginia hereby note with great sadness the loss of the Reverend Gary Michael Roberts;

and, be it RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the Senate prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the family of the Reverend Gary Michael Roberts as an expression of the Senate of Virginia's respect for his memory.

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