2026 SPECIAL SESSION I
ENROLLED
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 2114
Celebrating the life of Alice Pearl Gatling Morings.
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, June 22, 2026
WHEREAS, Alice Pearl Gatling Morings, a beloved member of the Suffolk community, died on November 24, 2025; and
WHEREAS, Alice Morings grew up in the former Nansemond County and attended Nansemond County Training School, which was originally constructed as the first public high school for Black students in the area; and
WHEREAS, Alice Morings subsequently earned a teacher's aide certificate and a nurse's aide certificate from Paul D. Camp Community College in Franklin; and
WHEREAS, Alice Morings was a devout member of St. Matthews Holiness Church in Suffolk for many years, serving as treasurer and volunteering to support the church in a variety of capacities, such as cooking meals in the church kitchen or cleaning; and
WHEREAS, after St. Matthews Holiness Church closed, Alice Morings continued to express her faith as a member of Holland Mission United Church of Christ; and
WHEREAS, predeceased by two daughters and two sons, Alice Morings will be fondly remembered and greatly missed by her children, Mary, Frederick, Samuel, and Lyndon, and their families, and numerous other family members and friends; now, therefore, be it