HomeMy WebLinkAbout2021-38Resolution 2021-38
Resolution Recognizing the Service of Stevens Funeral Home
and the Stevens Family to the Town of Pulaski
WHEREAS, the Town Council of the Town of Pulaski, Virginia desires to recognize and commend
those businesses of long standing in the community that have rendered a legacy of service of the
highest caliber to the citizens of the Town of Pulaski; and,
EAS, Stevens Funeral Home has -provided mortuary and funeral services to the citizens of the
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+Town and served as a cornerstone of the Town's business community for 131 years; and,.
'WHEREAS,.�in 1890,. Mr. ,M.W. Stevens established the family business'.as Stevens Funeral Home, ..
and Ambulance Service and was followed in, his tradition of service by his song Mr. B: Stanley Ste
vens,and hisgrandson, Mr.'Robert Stevens; and,yy, .
,WHEREAS, since'198'1, Matt, "Skip" and John'Stevens ,' have owned and„operated'the family"
:-business, being .the fourth. generation of the Stevens' family -to. do so and,
WHEREAS, after more that a century of operation, Stevens --Funeral Home passed;frorh the Stevens
family to. a n,ew-owner;- �?f
INOW. THEREFORE; BE IT RESOLVED by, the Town :Couincil' of the Town of Pulaski; ,Virginia i
sitting m,regular session this 7:fh day of September 2021; that the,Counalrdoes hereby recognize.
and commend:Stevens Funeral Home forits i many -~years= of seivice to friends; neighbors
icitizens of the Town of -Pulaski",
FURTHER}RESOLVED, that;the Town Counci(extends its deepest thanks and highest appreciation..
oto the, individualmembers of the Stevens family-rf_or their steadfast supportof.and willingness
Iserve,the citizens of.their-h'ormetown
This resolution, --is effective upo,n,adbptiion_and is hereby adopted this 7th day of September
202.1 by..the duly recorded;;wote of theTown.Councilof the Town,ofPulaski as follows
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Lane R. Penn -Aye James,A, Radcliffe' Aye
Brooks R. Dawson -Aye G. Tyler Clontz, -Aye
Gregory C.:East '-Aye Michael. R. Reis,, -Aye
I THE TOWN OF PULASKI, VIRGINIA
W. Shannon Collins
Mayor
ATTEST:
David N. Quesenberry 7
Clerk of Council