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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2023

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF MARY E. SMITH

     Introduced By: Senator Valarie J. Lawson

     Date Introduced: March 24, 2023

     Referred To: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar

     WHEREAS, It is with deep sadness that this Senate has learned of the passing of Mary E.

Smith, the devoted wife of Richard Patrick Smith for nearly 50 years; and

     WHEREAS, Mary E. Smith was born in Providence, a daughter of the late Jean Aguiar.

She graduated from the St. Joseph Hospital Nursing School in 1972, and began working as a

registered nurse at Women & Infants in 1977; and

     WHEREAS, Mrs. Smith was a devoted medical professional and skilled nurse who loved

taking care of premature infants with her fellow nurses and doctors in the Neo-natal Intensive

Care Unit; and

     WHEREAS, Even after retiring in 2013, Mrs. Smith would regularly get together with

her nursing friends for lunch and camaraderie. She was a giving and loving person who always

put her family and patients first in her life; and

     WHEREAS, In addition to her husband, Richard, Mary Smith leaves behind her sons,

Brian Emmett Smith and his wife, Eileen, and Christopher Michael Smith and his wife, Lela, and

her grandchildren, Douglas Emmett, Vivian Veronica, Caroline Elizabeth and Evelyn Elizabeth.

She also leaves behind her siblings JoAnne Aguiar, Richard Aguiar, Sharon Snape and Robert

Aguiar, her aunts Joan Furtado and Louise Kenney, and many nieces, nephews and cousins. She

was the mother of the late Jennifer Rebecca Palumbo; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island hereby expresses its deepest

condolences on the passing of Mary E. Smith; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Mr. Richard Patrick Smith and Family.

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