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HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 400 Celebrating the life of Jean Felton Sharpe.

 

Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 17, 2017

 

WHEREAS, Jean Felton Sharpe of Portsmouth, a retired nurse and a woman of deep and abiding faith, died on September 26, 2016; and

WHEREAS, a native of Portsmouth, Jean Sharpe graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School and Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters School of Nursing; and

WHEREAS, Jean Sharpe spent most of her professional career as a nurse at Portsmouth General Hospital, providing comfort and care to countless members of the community; and

WHEREAS, Jean Sharpe was a member and former director of Women On Mission and a former president of the Women’s Missionary Union, as well as a longtime member of the Woman’s Club of Portsmouth; and

WHEREAS, guided by her faith, Jean Sharpe was a member of Fourth Street Baptist Church and helped establish River Shore Baptist Church, where she enjoyed fellowship and worship with the community and served as a trustee; and

WHEREAS, predeceased by her husband, Leo, Jean Sharpe will be fondly remembered and greatly missed by her children, Beverly, Leo, and Ruth, and their families, and by numerous other family members and friends; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That the House of Delegates hereby note with great sadness the loss of Jean Felton Sharpe, a beloved member of the Portsmouth community; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the family of Jean Felton Sharpe as an expression of the House of Delegates’ respect for her memory.