HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 68 Offered February 21, 2007 Celebrating the life of Stephen Grant Neely. ---------- Patrons-- Howell, W.J. and McEachin ----------

WHEREAS, Stephen Grant Neely, a session staff member of the House Clerk's Office, died on February 8, 2007, at the age of 80; and

WHEREAS, Stephen "Steve" Neely was born on January 23, 1927, in Memphis, Tennessee; he served in the United States Navy at the end of World War II and graduated from Belmont Abbey College and studied at the University of North Carolina; and

WHEREAS, Steve Neely, after an early career as a lumberman in High Point and Morehead City, North Carolina, moved to Virginia in 1976 and started Auto Trader Magazine, which he and his wife operated for 12 years; and

WHEREAS, Steve Neely was a member of  the House Clerk’s staff as a session employee in the Constituent Viewpoint Office and was an integral part of the early success of the operations of that office; and

WHEREAS, Steve Neely assisted citizens across the Commonwealth by forwarding their opinions on legislation and other issues to their Delegates and Senators; and

WHEREAS, Steve Neely was a lifelong Catholic and an active member of Our Lady of Lourdes parish in Richmond; and

WHEREAS, Steve Neely will be greatly missed by his wife Carolyn, sons Grant and Sim, grandsons Jeffery and Owen, daughter-in-law Stephanie, and a multitude of family and friends; and

WHEREAS, Steve Neely will be remembered fondly as an exceptional husband, father, grandfather, and friend; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That the House of Delegates hereby note with great sadness the loss of Stephen Grant Neely; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare copies of this resolution for presentation to the family of Stephen Grant Neely as an expression of the high regard in which his memory is held by the Virginia House of Delegates.