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AL HR108

Resolution

Status

Passed

3/1/2016

Primary Sponsor

Thomas Jackson

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Origin

House of Representatives

Regular Session 2016

AI Summary

  • Celebrates the life and legacy of Evangelist Elder Lillie Mae Robinson, born July 7, 1932, a descendant of the Yoruba people of Western Nigeria.

  • Recognizes her education at Thomasville High School and Alabama State University during the Civil Rights era and Montgomery Bus Boycott, and her employment as a nursemaid, shirt factory worker, and Certified Nurse Assistant with the State of Alabama (CNA awarded 1992).

  • Acknowledges her religious contributions including baptism into the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1965 and her role in founding the First Seventh-day Adventist Church of Thomasville, earning the title "the Voice" for preaching and hosting the "Better Day" radio program for over 20 years.

  • Lists her surviving family members including three children, six grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, and eight siblings.

  • Expresses the Alabama House of Representatives' gratitude for her abundant life and offers the resolution as tribute to her legacy and sympathy to her family and friends.

Legislative Description

Robinson, Lillie Mae, death mourned

Resolutions, Condolence

Last Action

Joint Rule 11

3/1/2016

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