SR 173 — Celebrating the life of Wanda Fay Slemp.

SESSION INTRODUCEDENROLLED 23106546D SENATE RESOLUTION NO.

173 IE Offered February 23, 2023 N Celebrating the life of Wanda Fay Slemp.

TN ––––––––––Agreed Patrons––Pillion,to Barker,by Bell,the Boysko,Senate, Cosgrove,February DeSteph,24, Ebbin,2023 Favola,R Hackworth,O Hanger,WHEREAS, HaRhmi,Wanda Petersen,Fay Reeves,Slemp, Rouse,a Ruff,beloved Saslaw,wife, Stanley,mother, Suetterlein,grandmother, Surovellgreat-grandmother, and Vogelrment,memWHEREAS, Peake,Oborn ––––––––––in DChad, WHEREAS,Kentucky, Wandaand later moving to Lee County, Fay Slemp,Slemp agraduated belovedfrom wife,L mother,the grandmother,former great-grandmother,Dryden andHigh memberSchool before working as the bookkeeper of the Lonesome Pine Regional L Library in Wise for nearly 20 years, contributing greatly to the success of the institution throughoEt DicWHEREAS, after retiring from the Lonesome Pine Regional Library and relocating to the beaches of D North and South Carolina with her husband, Charles, Fay Slemp served as a librarian assistant at Southeastern Community College for some time before ultimately returning to Lee CountyCounty, community,where diedshe onworWHEREAS, FebruaryFay 6,Slemp 2023;could often be found in her garden among her treasured flowers, reading the latest John Grisham novel, collecting lighthouses, basket weaving, or sewing, yet her greatest joy was Devils fan, and an expert sandcastle maker;

andandan Uengrossing WHEREAS,storyteller, borna infierce Chad,Duke Kentucky,University andBlue laterWHEREAS, movingpreceded to Lee County, Fay Slemp graduated from C Library in Wisedeath forby nearlyher 20husband, years,Charles, contributingFay greatlySlemp towill thebe successfondly ofremembered theand institutionR thrEughoutdearly Dickenson,missed Lee,by Wise,her andson, ScottCharles, CountiesJr., and thehis Cityfamily; of Norton;

and WHEREAS,by afternumerous retiringother fromfamily themembers Lonesome Pine Regional Library and relocating3 tofriRESOLVED, That the beachesSenate of NorthVirginia andhereby Southnote Carolina with hergreat husband,sadness Charles,the Fayloss Slempof servedWanda as a librarian assistant at Southeastern Community College for some time before ultimately returning to Lee County, where she worWHEREAS, Fay SlempR couldSlemp, oftena becherished foundmember inof her garden among her treasured flowers, reading the latestLee JohnCounty Grishamcommunity, novel,whose collectingkindness lighthouses, basket weaving, or sewing, yet her greatest joy was spending time with her family, who knew her as an engrossing storyteller, a fierce Duke University Blue Devils fan, and angenerosity experttouched sandcastlecountless maker;lives;

andand, WHEREAS,be precededit inpresentation deathto bythe herfamily husband,of Charles,Wanda Fay Slemp willas bean fondlyexpression rememberedof andthe RSenate friends;of Virginia's respect for her memory.

now, therefore, be itles, Jr., and his family;

and by numerous other family members an7 RESOLVED, That the Senate of Virginia hereby note with great sadness the loss of Wanda Fay 3 Slemp, a cherished member of the Lee County community, whose kindness and generosity touched countless lives;

and, be it RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the Senate prepare a copy of this resolution for her memory.n to the family of Wanda Fay Slemp as an expression of the Senate of Virginia's respect for / / 2