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2020 SESSION

20108021D
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 292
Offered February 20, 2020
Celebrating the life of Virginia Flynn Bell.
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Patrons-- Sickles, Bulova, Delaney, Filler-Corn, Herring, Keam, Kory, Krizek, Levine, Lopez, Murphy, Plum, Reid, Simon, Sullivan, Tran and Watts; Senators: Barker, Boysko, Ebbin and Howell
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WHEREAS, Virginia Flynn Bell of Fairfax County, a trusted advisor to local, state, and federal government officials, died on August 2, 2019; and

WHEREAS, Virginia “Pixie” Flynn Bell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from Edward Little High School in Auburn, Maine; and

WHEREAS, Pixie Bell served her country as a member of the United States Air Force and, at the age of 63, earned a bachelor’s degree from Marymount University; and

WHEREAS, Pixie Bell was an active leader in her community and served as first vice chair of Virginia’s 8th Congressional District Democratic Committee, as well as four terms as secretary of the Democratic Party of Virginia; and

WHEREAS, the devoted matriarch of a large family, Pixie Bell will be fondly remembered and greatly missed by her children and grandchildren and numerous other family members and friends; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly hereby note with great sadness the loss of Virginia Flynn Bell; 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 Virginia Flynn Bell as an expression of the General Assembly’s respect for her memory.