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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2024

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

EXPRESSING CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF KAREN J. OLIVEIRA

     

     Introduced By: Senator Valarie J. Lawson

     Date Introduced: January 10, 2024

     Referred To: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar

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     WHEREAS, It is with sadness that this Senate has learned of the passing of Karen J.

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Oliveira, the wife of Norbert Oliveira, to whom she had been married for 40 years; and

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     WHEREAS, Born in the City of Providence, Mrs. Oliveira was the daughter of the late

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James and Eleanor Dix, and the sister of Susan Zeitler and her husband, John, and Richard Dix;

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and

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     WHEREAS, Mrs. Oliveira created a warm and welcoming home. She doted on her

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daughter, Christine DeMelo and her husband, Matthew, and was blessed with two grandchildren,

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Mason DeMelo and Olivia DeMelo; and

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     WHEREAS, In addition to providing a wonderful home for her family, for thirty-three

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years, Mrs. Oliveira was a teacher for the East Providence School Department. She had retired in

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2018; and

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     WHEREAS, Dedicated to her community as well as her students, Mrs. Oliveira served on

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the East Providence School Committee from 2019-2020; and

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     WHEREAS, Karen Oliveira was a wife, mother, grandmother, and friend to many, and

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she will be dearly missed; now, therefore be it

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

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sympathies on the passing of Karen J. Oliveira; 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 Norbert Oliveira and Family.

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