GA HR1451

Honors and memorializes Martitia "Marty" Martin Jones, R.N., of Barwick, Georgia, a registered nurse who served nearly 38 years at John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital in Thomasville and was named the hospital's Employee of the Year in 2000 out of more than 2,700 employees

Recognizes her heroism on the evening of February 9, 2014, when she and her husband stopped to provide care to victims of a motor vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 84 in Lowndes County, Georgia

Notes that Jones was killed in a subsequent motor vehicle accident at the scene after refusing to abandon a patient in her care despite imminent danger

Expresses the Georgia House of Representatives' deepest sympathies and condolences to her family, friends, co-workers, and patients

Invites members of her family to be recognized by the House of Representatives at a date and time to be determined by the Speaker of the House