Bill Text: GA SR1138 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Cook, Pastor Tamarkus T.; recognize

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-03-12 - Senate Read and Adopted [SR1138 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-SR1138-Enrolled.html

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12 LC 93 1277

Senate Resolution 1138

By: Senator Chance of the 16th

A RESOLUTION

Recognizing and commending Pastor Tamarkus T. Cook; and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, Pastor Tamarkus T. Cook was born in Newnan, Georgia, a beloved son of Terry Cook and Adriane Patrick; and

WHEREAS, at the age of eight he was blessed with the anointing from God to play the piano by ear and became the minister of music for the Temple of God Church, Inc., which blessed him with the opportunity to serve as an organist, pianist, and minister of music; and

WHEREAS, compelled to become a mortician, his passion afforded him the opportunity to become employed by the Sellers-Smith Funeral Home, Inc.; and

WHEREAS, a graduate from the Morehouse College, Pastor Cook actively participated in the NAACP and the Student Government Association and created the Morehouse College Committee of Bereavement, an organization that arranged and conducted memorial services for students that passed while matriculating through the college; and

WHEREAS, an active member in his community, Pastor Cook served as chair of membership for the Collegiate 100 Black Men of Atlanta; and

WHEREAS, Pastor Cook serves as pastor of Saint Smyrna Baptist Church, the largest African American congregation in Coweta County, since his election in January of 2012; and

WHEREAS, he is a person of magnanimous strengths with an unimpeachable reputation for integrity, intelligence, fairness, and kindness, and by the example he has made of his life, he makes this world a better place in which to live; and

WHEREAS, it is abundantly fitting and proper that the outstanding accomplishments of this distinguished Georgian be appropriately recognized.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE that the members of this body commend Pastor Tamarkus T. Cook for his unparalleled record of community service and his innumerable good works rendered on behalf of persons in need and extend to him their most sincere best wishes for continued health and happiness.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to Pastor Tamarkus T. Cook.