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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2014

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

EXPRESSING PROFOUND SYMPATHY ON THE PASSING OF JANE ARLENE WATSON

     

     Introduced By: Representatives Lima, Mattiello, Newberry, Kennedy, and Giarrusso

     Date Introduced: April 03, 2014

     Referred To: House read and passed

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     WHEREAS, It is with great sadness that this House has learned of the passing of Jane

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Arlene Watson, beloved wife for over fifty years to the late Robert W. Watson, and the devoted

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mother of one daughter, Stephanie Watson, and three sons, David Watson, our friend and former

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colleague The Honorable Robert A. Watson, and Michael Watson; and

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     WHEREAS, Mrs. Watson was an extremely vivacious, loving, and brilliant woman. She

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was a graduate of Pembroke College in Brown University and had been a teacher with the

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Warwick School Department for thirty-five years, where she had taken great delight in teaching

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the gifted student program for the last few years of her career; and

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     WHEREAS, Mrs. Watson’s caring personality created and nurtured a marriage that

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flourished, and a home that was warm and welcoming. She doted on her family, and her patient

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and caring nature made her the kind of mother that every child needs and deserves; and

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     WHEREAS, In addition to her family and teaching, Mrs. Watson was very active in the

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community and with local politics, which she undoubtedly instilled in her son, Bob. She had

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served on the East Greenwich School Committee for eight years and was a member of the

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Republican Town Committee. Bob went on to serve in the General Assembly as a State Senator

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from 1989 until 1991, and in the House of Representatives from 1993 until his retirement in 2012.

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He was elected Minority Leader by his peers and served from 1998 until 2011; and

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     WHEREAS, Over the years the Watson’s home was shared by a myriad of friends, happy

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times, and smiling faces. Jane Watson was the heart and soul of her family. Her wit, humor, and

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sincerity will forever be indelibly imprinted on the lives and in the cherished memories of her

 

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entire family. She enriched the lives of all who had the good fortune to have known her and she

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will be dearly 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 Jane Arlene

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Watson. She will be forever remembered as a devoted wife and loving mother; and be it further

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

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transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to The Honorable Robert A. Watson.

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