0001|                       SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 54
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                         TIMOTHY Z. JENNINGS
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0009|     
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     IN MEMORY OF WILMA BERRY, WIFE OF FORMER REPRESENTATIVE DAN
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0012|     BERRY.
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0013|     
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0014|          WHEREAS, Wilma "Burrie" Berry, wife of former
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0015|     Representative Dan Berry, died December 18, 1997; and
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0016|          WHEREAS, she was born September 23, 1923 in Post, Texas
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0017|     and married Dan on January 1, 1943 in Pampa, Texas; and
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0018|          WHEREAS, she moved to the Berry ranch in 1946 and was a
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0019|     homemaker, a member of the First United Methodist church and
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0020|     the Eunice chamber of commerce and the secretary for the
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0021|     American junior rodeo association for many years; and
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0022|          WHEREAS, she was named Eunice's citizen of the year for
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0023|     1987-88; and
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0024|          WHEREAS, Wilma was a loyal friend who cared passionately
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0025|     about her family, her community and her state and was a strong
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0001|     advocate for the ranching life and values of rural New Mexico;
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0002|     and
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0003|          WHEREAS, the old hands at the legislature remember Wilma
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0004|     playing cards in the lounge with the other wives, one ear on
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0005|     the game and the other one attending to the floor action, or
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0006|     sitting patiently in the legislative council service waiting
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0007|     for Dan's interim committee meeting to end; and
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0008|          WHEREAS, Wilma Berry was one of the few people who was
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0009|     allowed to get away with questioning a legislator's vote, and
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0010|     not just her husband's; and
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0011|          WHEREAS, she made the best chile beans and hot rolls
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0012|     around, and there are still folks in the legislature, house
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0013|     and senate, democrat and republican, who remember sitting
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0014|     around after a hard day's work, eating and laughing and
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0015|     relaxing over Wilma's down-home food; and
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0016|          WHEREAS, Wilma is survived by a loving family, including
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0017|     her husband Dan, sons Danny and Phillip, brother Jim, sisters
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0018|     Mary, Maxine and Jennie and her four grandchildren to whom she
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0019|     was devoted; and
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0020|          WHEREAS, she is remembered fondly by legislators, staff,
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0021|     lobbyists and the many other friends she had in Santa Fe;
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0022|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0023|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that heartfelt condolences be extended to
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0024|     the friends and family of Wilma "Burrie" Berry, an outstanding
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0025|     and devoted New Mexican; and
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0001|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0002|     sent to Representative Dan Berry and the Berry family.
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