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House
Resolution 368
By:
Representatives Smith of the
168th,
Kaiser of the
59th,
Benfield of the
85th,
and Sims of the
169th
A
RESOLUTION
Congratulating
Dee and Joe Sports on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary; and for
other purposes.
WHEREAS,
Dee Plymell of Thomasville, Georgia, was a medical technician working at the
Douglas-Coffee County Hospital when she met a young reporter for the
Douglas
Enterprise, Joe Sports;
WHEREAS,
their marriage ceremony was celebrated on February 24, 1957, at the Dawson
Street Methodist Church in Thomasville, followed by a reception at the Three
Toms Inn and a wedding trip to New Orleans; and
WHEREAS,
in subsequent years Dee joined Joe in Germany while he served as a photographer
for the Army and they later moved to Washington where Joe was a congressional
aide, and then on to Albany where Joe took a position as a newsman with WALB
television station; and
WHEREAS,
Joe´s career took them to Atlanta where Joe became executive director of
the Democratic Party of Georgia; and
WHEREAS,
Dee assisted Joe in starting his successful consulting business;
and
WHEREAS,
Dee worked for 16 years in the offices of Max Cleland, when he was Georgia
Secretary of State and then when he was elected as United States Senator;
and
WHEREAS,
Joe and Dee are parents of a beloved daughter, Susan Sports, an information
officer for the Department of Driver Services, and the grandparents of two
wonderful boys, Ali and Amir; and
WHEREAS,
through the years Joe and Dee Sports have been active in community and church
affairs; and
WHEREAS,
since they have made substantial contributions and provided invaluable service
to their community, their church, and state government it is abundantly fitting
and proper that this body should recognize and congratulate this wonderful
couple on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary.
NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the members of
this body commend Joe and Dee Sports for their many decades of unyielding
strength and unparalleled inspiration, congratulate them upon the joyous
occasion of their golden wedding anniversary, and extend to them best wishes for
continued health and happiness.
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House is authorized and directed to
transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to Joe and Dee Sports.