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2021 SPECIAL SESSION II
WHEREAS, Alice Rebecca Williams Jones, former member of the Waverly Town Council and the Sussex County Board of Supervisors, died on July 3, 2021; and
WHEREAS, Alice Jones graduated from the Sussex County Training School in Waverly in 1953, and subsequently became a licensed practical nurse following graduation from the Petersburg General Hospital School of Practical Nursing in 1971; and
WHEREAS, Alice Jones served the Counties of Sussex and Surry for many years as an employee of the Crater Health District, where she was the first black licensed practical nurse employed by the health district; and
WHEREAS, Alice Jones served her community as a member of the Waverly Town Council, the Sussex County Board of Supervisors, and the Sussex County Social Services Board; and
WHEREAS, Alice Jones was an active and engaged member of the Naomi Chapter #123 Order of the Eastern Star, holding the distinction of past matron; and
WHEREAS, Alice Jones was a lifelong member of First Baptist Church, Waverly, where she served as the first female deacon in the church’s history; and
WHEREAS, preceded in death by her beloved husband, Thomas, Alice Jones will be fondly remembered and greatly missed by her children, Thomas, Michael, and Karl, and their families, and numerous other family members and friends; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Delegates hereby note with great sadness the loss of Alice Rebecca Williams Jones; 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 Alice Rebecca Williams Jones as an expression of the House of Delegates’ respect for her memory.