Bill Text: VA HJR669 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Celebrating the life of Isabel Gallimore Shelor.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-02-05 - Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rules [HJR669 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2021-HJR669-Introduced.html
WHEREAS, Isabel Gallimore Shelor, the matriarch of the Shelor Motor Mile auto dealership family and a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend, died on May 30, 2020; and
WHEREAS, born on April 7, 1924, Isabel Shelor was the youngest of the 10 children of Cordell Lee Gallimore and Stella Gallimore; and
WHEREAS, Isabel Gallimore married "Lew" Shelor, a returning G.I. from World War II, and they built a life that took them from Floyd to Roanoke to Richmond and then to Severna Park, Maryland; and
WHEREAS, in 1974, Isabel and Lew Shelor decided to risk all they had on a small business in Christiansburg, establishing Shelor Motor Mile, which is now one of the largest and most respected dealerships in the Commonwealth; and
WHERAS, Isabel Shelor's devotion to building Shelor Motor Mile as a future for her family gave her son Larry Shelor the opportunity to be elected by his peers to lead dealers of the Commonwealth as the chairman of the Virginia Automobile Dealers Association; and
WHEREAS, preceded in death by her loving husband, Lew, Isabel Shelor will be fondly remembered and dearly missed by her children, Larry, Jane, and David, and their families, and by numerous other family members and friends; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly hereby note with great sadness the loss of Isabel Gallimore Shelor, a respected member of the Christiansburg community whose unwavering kindness and generosity touched countless lives; and, be it
RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the family of Isabel Gallimore Shelor as an expression of the General Assembly's respect for her memory.