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14103966D
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 183
Offered January 20, 2014
Commending Jane Harrel Garrant Roane.
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Patron-- McQuinn
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WHEREAS, born in Fluvanna County on February 12, 1908, Jane Harrel Garrant Roane will celebrate her 106th birthday in 2014; and

WHEREAS, the daughter of George Washington and Laura Adams Garrant, Jane Harrel Garrant Roane was one of 10 brothers and sisters; and

WHEREAS, Jane Harrel Garrant Roane was reared on the T. D. Stokes Farm (Elk Hill) in Goochland, where she worked every day at the house with one Sunday off per month; and

WHEREAS, a curious and hardworking child, Jane Harrel Garrant Roane attended Backbone School until the sixth grade; and

WHEREAS, at age 11, she was baptized in the James River; she and her family were longstanding members of Second Union Church; and

WHEREAS, Jane Harrel Garrant Roane was first employed at age 15 and worked for three years in the home of Louise Buhrman in Cartersville before deciding to accept employment in Bronxville, New York; she returned to Richmond after 18 months to work for the Buhrmans for two more years; and

WHEREAS, desiring to be in close proximity to her siblings, Jane Harrel Garrant Roane accepted a job with Mrs. John Hagan in Richmond, where she was employed for 30 years as a homemaker and confidante; and

WHEREAS, after many years in the employ of Mrs. John Hagan, Jane Harrel Garrant Roane went to work in the nurses’ quarter at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, formerly the Medical College of Virginia, from which she retired after 25 years of service; and

WHEREAS, Jane Harrel Garrant Roane is a kind and devoted grandmother, friend, neighbor, and aunt and an upstanding citizen and longtime resident of Richmond’s Church Hill community; and

WHEREAS, Jane Harrel Garrant Roane loves to crochet and to recall the many things she has observed and experienced during her long and rich life; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly hereby commend Jane Harrel Garrant Roane on the occasion of her 106th birthday; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Jane Harrel Garrant Roane as an expression of the General Assembly’s best wishes on the occasion of her 106th birthday.