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2017 SESSION


SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 348
Celebrating the life of Robert Lee Kemp.
 
Agreed to by the Senate, February 2, 2017
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 10, 2017
 

WHEREAS, Robert Lee Kemp of Fairfield, a farmer and longtime Commissioner of the Revenue for Rockbridge County, died on June 4, 2016; and

WHEREAS, Robert “Bob” Kemp, a son of the late Roy and Beulah Kemp, was a veteran of the United States Army; and

WHEREAS, a dedicated and highly admired public servant, Bob Kemp dutifully and faithfully served the people of Rockbridge County as Commissioner of the Revenue for 17 years; and

WHEREAS, Bob Kemp farmed for many years and his greatest loves, outside of his family, were working outdoors on his farm and gardening; and

WHEREAS, Bob Kemp was an upstanding, civic-minded member of his community, he was a member of the Fairfield Ruritan Club, Rockbridge Camp of Gideons International, and a member and elder of Timber Ridge Old Stone Presbyterian Church; and

WHEREAS, Bob Kemp dearly loved his family and his church, and his grandchildren especially will cherish the memories of their time with “Grandpop” on the farm; and

WHEREAS, predeceased by his wife, Elaine, and stepsons, Steve and Bruce, Bob Kemp will be fondly remembered and greatly missed by his five grandchildren, and their families, and numerous other relatives and good friends; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring, That the General Assembly hereby note with great sadness the loss of Robert Lee Kemp of Fairfield, a farmer and longtime Commissioner of the Revenue for Rockbridge County; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the Senate prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the family of Robert Lee Kemp as an expression of the General Assembly’s respect for his memory.