A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION TO REQUEST THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION NAME THE PORTION OF PLEASANT LANE ROAD IN EDGEFIELD COUNTY FROM ITS INTERSECTION WITH UNITED STATES HIGHWAY 25 TO ITS INTERSECTION WITH UNITED STATES HIGHWAY 378 “MAMIE J. REARDEN HIGHWAY” AND ERECT APPROPRIATE MARKERS OR SIGNS ALONG THIS PORTION OF HIGHWAY THAT CONTAIN THE WORDS “MAMIE J. REARDEN HIGHWAY”. Whereas, deeply saddened at the news, the members of the South Carolina General Assembly have learned of the death of Mamie J. Rearden of Edgefield on Wednesday, January 2, 2013, at the venerable age of one hundred fourteen; and Whereas, while William McKinley was President of the United States, Mamie Rearden entered this world on September 7, 1898. She was raised in her hometown of Edgefield and lived there all her life; and Whereas, her father sent her off to earn a teaching certificate at Bettis Academy on the far side of the county. She spent an entire day on a loaded wagon to reach the school along dirt roads. Mrs. Rearden taught for several years, but after getting married and starting a family she left teaching to become a homemaker and with her husband, Oacy, raised a fine family of eleven children. Oacy Rearden died in 1979 at the age of eightyeight after fiftynine years of marriage to his beloved Mamie; and Whereas, at the age of sixtyfive, Mrs. Rearden obtained her first and at about the same time became a case worker driver’s license for an antipoverty program; and
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION TO REQUEST THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION NAME THE PORTION OF PLEASANT LANE ROAD IN EDGEFIELD COUNTY FROM ITS INTERSECTION WITH UNITED STATES HIGHWAY 25 TO ITS INTERSECTION WITH UNITED STATES HIGHWAY 378 “MAMIE J. REARDEN HIGHWAY” AND ERECT APPROPRIATE MARKERS OR SIGNS ALONG THIS PORTION OF HIGHWAY THAT CONTAIN THE WORDS “MAMIE J. REARDEN HIGHWAY”. Whereas, deeply saddened at the news, the members of the South Carolina General Assembly have learned of the death of Mamie J. Rearden of Edgefield on Wednesday, January 2, 2013, at the venerable age of one hundred fourteen; and Whereas, while William McKinley was President of the United States, Mamie Rearden entered this world on September 7, 1898. She was raised in her hometown of Edgefield and lived there all her life; and Whereas, her father sent her off to earn a teaching certificate at Bettis Academy on the far side of the county. She spent an entire day on a loaded wagon to reach the school along dirt roads. Mrs. Rearden taught for several years, but after getting married and starting a family she left teaching to become a homemaker and with her husband, Oacy, raised a fine family of eleven children. Oacy Rearden died in 1979 at the age of eightyeight after fiftynine years of marriage to his beloved Mamie; and Whereas, at the age of sixtyfive, Mrs. Rearden obtained her first driver’s license and at about the same time became a case worker for an antipoverty program; and