South Carolina S 546: Celia S. Price

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2025-2026 Bill 546 Text of Previous Version (Apr. 15, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 546

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A senate RESOLUTION

TO RECOGNIZE AND HONOR Celia S. Price for, at the 
age of ninety-four, having served on the colleton county Board of Voter 
Registration and Elections for twenty years, making her the oldest and longest-serving 
Member of the board.

Whereas, the members of 
the South Carolina Senate are pleased to recognize Celia S. Price for being the 
oldest and longest-serving member of the Board of Voter Registration and 
Elections. At the age of ninety-four, she has served since 2005; and

Whereas, a native of the 
Mashawville Community of Colleton County, Mrs. Price was born on November 12, 
1930, to parents Melvin and Violet Stanfield and with siblings Esther Stanfield 
Black, Frances Stanfield Young, Patricia Dianne Stanfield Gadson, and Joseph J. 
Stanfield. She is an alumna of South Carolina State College, where she 
graduated in 1951 with a degree in liberal arts and where she pledged Alpha 
Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.; and

Whereas, Mrs. Price 
began her career as a teacher in Jasper County for one year before moving on to 
teach elementary school at Colleton Training School for two years. She then enrolled 
at the University of Georgia in Athens, where she received her Education 
Specialist degree from the University of Georgia; and

Whereas, Mrs. Price 
returned to Colleton County to teach and went on to teach a total of forty-three 
years in the public schools of South Carolina; and

Whereas, an 
entrepreneur, Mrs. Price and her husband owned a restaurant called Snack Land 
in Walterboro. Their desire was to help create jobs for the African American 
community; and

Whereas, a civic 
leader, Mrs. Price is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.; Gamma Xi 
Omega Chapter, with whom she recently received her Diamond Pin for her 
seventy-five years of service; Lowcountry Ladies, who give an average of ten 
scholarships per year to students in Beaufort, Colleton, Jasper, and Hampton 
Counties; Martin Luther King Jr. Assembly #349-Order of the Golden Circle; 
Lowcountry Quilters; the South Carolina State Alumni Association; the Order of 
Eastern Star, with whom she served as treasurer and received a fifty-year certificate; 
and the Colleton County Education Association-Retired, with whom she currently 
serves as chaplain; and

Whereas, in addition to 
her civic leadership and service, Mrs. Price is the oldest and longest-serving 
member of the Colleton County Board of Voter Registration and Elections. She 
was appointed in 2005 by the late Senator McKinley Washington and has been continuously 
reappointed each year by the delegation; and

Whereas, a devout 
Christian, she attended Isaiah United Methodist Church as a child. She is now a 
member of Hopewell Presbyterian Church in Walterboro, where she began attending 
after marriage to her husband. She has served as the president of the 
Presbyterian Women's Organization, a Sunday school teacher, and a Presbyterian elder; 
and

Whereas, Mrs. Price was 
married to the late Benjamin E. Price, who passed away in 2002. She helped her 
husband raise his two sons, Hewlett Price and Benjamin E. Price Jr.; and

Whereas, the members of 
the South Carolina Senate greatly appreciate the dedication and commitment that 
Mrs. Price has shown in serving the voters of Colleton County and the people and 
the State of South Carolina. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate:

That the members of the South Carolina Senate, by this resolution, recognize and honor 
Celia S. Price for, at the age of ninety-four, having served on the Colleton 
County Board of Voter Registration and Elections for twenty years, making her the 
oldest and longest-serving member of the board.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this 
resolution be presented to Celia S. Price.

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