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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, Family and friends are mourning the loss of Linda |
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Lou Hill of Missouri City, who passed away on April 20, 2013, at the |
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age of 69; and |
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WHEREAS, Linda Hill was born on October 15, 1943, in |
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Livingston, the only child of Elmer and Maurine Dominy Hill; she |
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graduated from Kirby High School in Woodville and attended Baylor |
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University; her love of history led her to a career in education, |
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teaching history to middle school students in the Eagle Lake and |
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Lamar Consolidated Independent School Districts; she was an engaged |
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and lively teacher, dressing up in period costumes and chaperoning |
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summer tours of Washington, D.C., for her students; after retiring, |
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she worked as a substitute teacher at Living Water Christian School |
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and Fort Bend Baptist Academy; she also enjoyed writing and had |
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recently penned a poem for her high school class's 50th reunion; and |
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WHEREAS, A woman of faith, Ms. Hill served as the Southwest |
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District president for United Methodist Women and as a lay minister |
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and reader for her church; in addition, she held many offices as a |
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member of the Eastern Star, including worthy matron, and she was |
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active in her community, playing the piano for local groups and |
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organizations and performing in community theater productions; and |
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WHEREAS, While the death of Linda Hill brings immeasurable |
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sorrow to her loved ones, she leaves behind a legacy of compassion |
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and service that will long be treasured by all those who held her |
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dear; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 83rd Texas |
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Legislature hereby pay tribute to the memory of Linda Lou Hill and |
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extend sincere sympathy to her friends and family: to her aunts, |
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LaWanda Yancey and Pherma Lee "Pete" Dominy; to her "adopted |
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daughter," Deana Marek, her husband Trey, and their children, |
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Katie, Kendall, and Cameron; to her cousins, Mary and Mark |
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Hlavinka, Mitchell Curtis O'Neill and his wife, Bobbie, |
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R. E. Sanderson, and Jimmy and Phyllis Frye; to her special |
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friends, Patsy Harvell, Trish and Lavelle Alkire, Jim Alcorn, and |
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Martha Kimbrough; and to her other friends and relatives; and, be it |
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further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for her family and that when the Texas House of |
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Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Linda Hill. |
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Speaker of the House |
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I certify that H.R. No. 2240 was unanimously adopted by a |
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rising vote of the House on May 22, 2013. |
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______________________________ |
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Chief Clerk of the House |
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