South Carolina 2025-2026 Regular Session Status: Passed House Bipartisan · 3 R · 2 D cosponsors

H 3666 — Mother Eddie Stringer

Last action — Introduced and adopted

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    Passed House
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    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has passed the House. Introduced January 15, 2025. It now moves to the second chamber.

Next likely step: consideration and a floor vote in the Senate.

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  • Passed House

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  • 123 sponsors

    123 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

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    Sponsored across 2 parties (3 R · 2 D) — cross-party backing.

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Summary

A HOUSE RESOLUTION TO EXPRESS THE PROFOUND SORROW OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES UPON THE PASSING OF MOTHER EDDIE LEE STRINGER AND TO EXTEND THEIR DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO HER LARGE AND LOVING FAMILY AND HER MANY FRIENDS.

Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

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Plain-language change summary

In the latest version of Bill H 3666, a resolution was added to express condolences for the passing of Mother Eddie Lee Stringer, who lived to be 105 years old. This change acknowledges her significant life and the legacy of her family, who were notable landowners in Alabama. It matters because it highlights the importance of honoring individuals who have made meaningful contributions to their communities and recognizes the historical impact of Black families like the Stovalls.

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2025-2026 Bill 3666 Text of Previous Version (Jan.
15, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online South Carolina General Assembly126th Session, 2025-2026Bill 3666Indicates Matter StrickenIndicates New Matter(Text matches printed bills.
Document has been reformatted to meet World Wide Web specifications.)                 A house RESOLUTION   to EXPRESS THE PROFOUND SORROW OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES UPON THE PASSING OF Mother Eddie Lee Stringer AND TO EXTEND THEIR DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO HER LARGE AND LOVING FAMILY AND HER MANY FRIENDS.
  Whereas, the South Carolina House of Representatives was saddened to learn of the death of Mother Eddie Lee Stringer at the age of one hundred five;
and   Whereas, born on November 9,1918, Eddie Lee was the sixth of eleven children born to the late Eddie Stovall and Annie Dawson in the small farming village of Haleburg, Alabama.
Nine of the eleven children, as well as their parents, have lived to be nonagenarians or centenarians;
and   Whereas, the Stovalls were a prominent Black family in the region, not just because of their numbers and longevity, but because they owned their farmland while most Black families sharecropped by renting farmland from wealthier whites.  Family tradition claims that Mother Stringer's grandfather and great-grandfather owned more than a thousand acres in Henry County at one time;
and   Whereas, today, the Stovall family and heirs own over four hundred acres of Henry County, including the homestead that lies adjacent to the Mount Zion Baptist Church, founded by the family in 1871 and placed on the Alabama Historic Register in 1985;
and   Whereas, growing up working on the family farm, Mother Stringer cherished the days she could attend school.
She was educated at the famed Rosenwald School, a boarding school for Blacks in Newville, Alabama.  From a very young age she was enamored with things of the Lord and felt a strong call to ministry and the pulpit, but her father would not allow any woman to speak a word in church;
and   Whereas, her father's sister, a strong proponent of women's rights, would secretly bring Mother Stringer to her church, Oak Grove African Methodist Episcopal Church, where Mother Stringer was allowed to serve as an exhorter and Scripture reader.  The Methodist church's teachings about holiness would prove foundational for Mother Stringer in both life and ministry;
and   Whereas, Mother Stringer married Jesse Stringer, a barber, and she had her first opportunity to vote, one of the first people from Haleburg to vote, and possibly the first woman of color.
Later they moved to Dothan, Alabama, where she became a member of Adam Street Baptist Church, was licensed as a missionary, and taught Sunday school.
In Dothan, she was employed as a licensed cosmetologist and a nurse's aide and helped to integrate the cafeteria at the Alabama Southeast Hospital where she worked.
When the family, moved to Freeport, New York, in 1962, she continued to work as a nurse's aide;
and   Whereas, out of an intercessory prayer group, she joined Little Zion Church of God in Christ, a mega church in Freeport, New York.  Mother Stringer found herself at home in the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), and she became licensed as an evangelist and was promoted to "mother" status.
Columbia became a second home for her during the 1970s as three of her children graduated from Benedict, and she often preached at Stedfast Christian Center and First Northeast Baptist Church in Columbia;
and   Whereas, she made her way to Tulsa, Oklahoma, through the Charismatic Movement, graduating from Victory Bible Institute in her early seventies.
She became an ordained pastor and minister of the gospel in 1988 at Higher Dimensions Evangelistic Center and served some thirty years as assistant pastor at Joy Praise and Worship Center alongside her daughter, attorney J.
Carolyn Stringer;
and   Whereas, she and her late husband, Jesse, reared seven fine children who blessed her with seeing the continuation of her loving family legacy in her grandchildren, and a host of great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, and great-great-great-grandchildren, a wealthy lineage.
Now, therefore,   Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:
  That the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, by this resolution, express their profound sorrow upon the passing of Mother Eddie Lee Stringer and extend their deepest sympathy to her large and loving family and her many friends.
  Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be presented to the family of Eddie Lee Stringer.
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What does H 3666 do?
A HOUSE RESOLUTION TO EXPRESS THE PROFOUND SORROW OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES UPON THE PASSING OF MOTHER EDDIE LEE STRINGER AND TO EXTEND THEIR DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO HER LARGE AND LOVING FAMILY AND HER MANY FRIENDS.
Who sponsors H 3666?
H 3666 is sponsored by Murphy, Chris, May, Robert J., III, Representative J. Todd Rutherford, Representative Terry Alexander, Representative Carl L. Anderson, Representative Lucas Atkinson, Representative William H. Bailey, Representative Nathan Ballentine, Representative Justin T. Bamberg, Representative Bruce W. Bannister, Representative Heather Bauer, Representative Thomas Beach, Representative Beth E. Bernstein, Representative Phillip Bowers, Representative Jeff Bradley, Representative Gary S. Brewer, Jr., T. Case Brittain, Jr. (Republican), Representative James Mikell "Mike" Burns, Representative Joseph M. "Joe" Bustos, Representative Paula Rawl Calhoon, Representative Micajah P. "Micah" Caskey IV, Representative Donald G. "Don" Chapman, Representative William M. "Bill" Chumley, Representative William "Bill" Clyburn, Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter, Representative Neal A. Collins, Representative Brandon L. Cox, Representative Heather Ammons Crawford, Representative April Cromer, Representative Sylleste H. Davis, Representative Chandra E. Dillard, Representative Adam L. Duncan, Representative Sarita L. Edgerton, Representative Shannon S. Erickson, Representative Cally R. "Cal" Forrest, Jr., Stephen D. Frank (Republican), Representative Craig A. Gagnon, Representative Kambrell H. Garvin, Representative Gil Gatch, Representative Daniel Gibson, Representative Leon D. "Doug" Gilliam, Representative Wendell G. Gilliard, Representative Thomas Lee Gilreath, Representative Jerry N. Govan, Jr., Representative Hamilton R. Grant, Representative Thomas Duval "Val" Guest, Jr., Representative Brandon Guffey, Representative Patrick B. Haddon, Representative William "Bill" Hager, Representative Kevin Hardee, Representative Robert J. "Rob" Harris, Representative Christopher R. "Chris" Hart, Representative Thomas F. "Tom" Hartnett, Jr., Representative Charles V. Hartz, Representative Jackie E. "Coach" Hayes, Representative William G. "Bill" Herbkersman, Representative Lee Hewitt, Representative David R. Hiott, Representative William M. "Bill" Hixon, Representative Harriet A. Holman, Representative Lonnie Hosey, Representative Leon Howard, Representative William C. "Chris" Huff, J.E. Johnson, J.L. Johnson, Representative Wendell K. Jones, Representative Wallace H. "Jay" Jordan, Jr., Representative John Gregory "Jay" Kilmartin, Representative John Richard C. King, Representative Roger K. Kirby, Representative Kathy Landing, Representative M. Brian Lawson, Representative Thomas R. "Randy" Ligon, Representative Steven Wayne Long, Representative Phillip D. Lowe, Jason Luck (Democrat), Representative Josiah Magnuson, Representative David Martin, Representative Donald Ryan McCabe, Jr., Representative John R. McCravy III, Representative Annie E. McDaniel, Representative Timothy A. "Tim" McGinnis, Representative Cody T. Mitchell, Representative W. Scott Montgomery IV, Representative JA Moore, Representative Travis A. Moore, Representative T. Alan Morgan, Jr., Representative Dennis C. Moss, Henderson-Myers, Rosalyn D., Representative Mike M. Neese, Representative Brandon Newton, Representative Wm. Weston J. Newton, Representative Melissa Lackey Oremus, Representative Jordan S. Pace, Representative Fawn M. Pedalino, Representative Thomas E. "Tommy" Pope, Representative Luke S. Rankin, Representative Robert T. Reese, Representative Michael F. Rivers, Sr., Representative Robby Robbins, Representative Seth Rose, Representative Richard Blake Sanders, Carla M. Schuessler (Republican), Representative Heath Sessions, Wheeler, William W., III, Tiffany R. Spann-Wilder (Democrat), Representative Leonidas E. "Leon" Stavrinakis, Representative Bill Taylor, Representative James E. Teeple, Representative Jackie R. Terribile, Representative David Vaughan, Representative J. David Weeks, Representative Elizabeth "Spencer" Wetmore, Representative Joseph S. "Joe" White, Representative William R. "Bill" Whitmire, Representative Paul B. Wickensimer, Representative Robert Q. Williams, Representative Mark N. Willis, Representative Chris Wooten, Representative Richard L. "Richie" Yow, Representative G. Murrell Smith, Jr., and Representative Marvin "Mark" Smith.
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