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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
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IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
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JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2012 | |
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H O U S E R E S O L U T I O N | |
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EXPRESSING SINCERE CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE REVEREND | |
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NAOMI JENNINGS CRAIG | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Blazejewski, Fox, Ajello, Hull, and Williams | |
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Date Introduced: February 09, 2012 | |
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Referred To: House read and passed | |
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WHEREAS, It is with utmost sadness that this House has learned of the passing of |
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Reverend Naomi Jennings Craig, a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother, and the beloved |
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pastor of the Sheldon Street Church for many years; and |
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WHEREAS, At the age of eight, Rev. Craig began teaching Sunday School. At age |
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seventeen, she founded the Christ Temple Church with a small group of women, and at age |
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eighteen, she was doing missionary work. However, it was not until age 78, that she was ordained |
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as a Baptist minister and became the pastor of the historic Sheldon Street Church in Fox Point. In |
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the intervening years, Rev. Craig led a life filled with purpose, adventure, and learning; and |
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WHEREAS, Upon graduation from Hope High School, Rev. Craig worked as a social |
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services counselor. She met and married Horace Craig, and together they raised their son, David, |
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and daughter, Carol; and |
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WHEREAS, In the 1960s, while working as a senior clerk for the state’s tax division, |
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Rev. Craig became active in the Urban League and that involvement resulted in her traveling to |
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Washington in 1963, to support Jobs and Freedom and to hear Martin Luther King, Jr., make his |
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famous “I have a Dream” speech. Thirty years later, she returned to Washington for the 30th |
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Anniversary of the march; and |
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WHEREAS, After retiring from the state, at an age and time in life when most women |
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would seek a quieter and slower pace, Rev. Craig decided to enroll in college. She earned |
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multiple degrees, graduating magna cum laude from Roger Williams College, the former |
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Barrington College, and Rhode Island College; and |
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WHEREAS, During her remarkable lifetime, Rev. Craig accumulated wisdom and |
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friends, admirers and awards, and always immense respect. She was a grand lady, a devout |
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Christian and minister, and a community leader who will be greatly missed; now, therefore be it |
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RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island and |
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Providence Plantations hereby expresses our deepest sympathies on the passing of Rev. Naomi |
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Jennings Craig; and be it further |
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RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and he hereby is authorized and directed to |
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transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to David Craig and Family, and Carol Rockington |
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and Family. |
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