Jimmie Redd 100th birthday

2025-2026 Bill 5729: Jimmie Redd 100th birthday - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 5729
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House Resolution
Sponsors: Reps. Oremus, Alexander, Anderson, Atkinson, Bailey, Ballentine, Bamberg, Bannister, Bauer, Beach, Bernstein, Bowers, Bradley, Brewer, Brittain, Burns, Bustos, Calhoon, Caskey, Chapman, Chumley, Clyburn, Cobb-Hunter, Collins, Cox, Crawford, Cromer, Davis, Dillard, Duncan, Edgerton, Erickson, Ford, Forrest, Frank, Gagnon, Garvin, Gatch, Gibson, Gilliam, Gilliard, Gilreath, Govan, Grant, Guest, Guffey, Haddon, Hager, Hardee, Harris, Hart, Hartnett, Hartz, Hayes, Henderson-Myers, Herbkersman, Hewitt, Hiott, Hixon, Holman, Hosey, Howard, Huff, J.E. Johnson, J.L. Johnson, Jones, Jordan, Kilmartin, King, Kirby, Landing, Lastinger, Lawson, Ligon, Long, Lowe, Luck, Magnuson, Martin, McCabe, McCravy, McDaniel, McGinnis, C. Mitchell, D. Mitchell, Montgomery, J. Moore, T. Moore, Morgan, Moss, Neese, B. Newton, W. Newton, Pace, Pedalino, Pope, Rankin, Reese, Rivers, Robbins, Rose, Rutherford, Sanders, Schuessler, Scott, Sessions, G.M. Smith, M.M. Smith, Spann-Wilder, Stavrinakis, Taylor, Teeple, Terribile, Vaughan, Waters, Weeks, Wetmore, White, Whitmire, Wickensimer, Williams, Willis, Wooten and Yow
Document Path: LC-0537VR-GM26.docx
Introduced in the House on June 25, 2026
Adopted by the House on June 25, 2026
Summary: Jimmie Redd 100th birthday
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RESOLUTION

TO CONGRATULATE
HIRAM JULIAN "JIMMIE" REDD OF AIKEN COUNTY ON THE OCCASION OF HIS ONE HUNDREDTH
BIRTHDAY AND TO WISH HIM A JOYOUS CELEBRATION AND MANY YEARS OF CONTINUED
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS.

W
hereas, the members of
the South Carolina House of Representatives are delighted to learn that Hiram
Julian "Jimmie" Redd will celebrate his one hundredth birthday on June 11, 2026.
Born on June 11, 1926, in the first quarter of the twentieth century, he has
witnessed many of the remarkable social changes, technological advancements,
and international developments that have spanned the globe from that time into
the first quarter of the twenty-first century; and

W
hereas, a native of
Montmorenci, Jimmie Redd grew up where farm work and skill with a rifle were
common parts of life. He was inducted into active service in the United States
Army on April 4, 1945, and completed training at Fort Jackson where he earned
high marks for accuracy on the rifle range. He was put on a ship heading west
across the Pacific when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan to end World War II;
and

W
hereas, the ship
carrying the Aiken County farm boy had been heading for Okinawa but adjusted
its course, and he got a sudden introduction to Japan in a non-combat
situation. He had grown up learning how to use trucks and tractors for plow
work, and he put those skills to use by helping to build what would become
Naval Air Facility Atsugi in eastern Japan; and

W
hereas, Mr. Redd was
assigned to help with cleaning and preparing a runway adequate for landing a
Boeing B-29 Superfortress, a bomber with a 141-foot wingspan and a history that
had delivered the wonder weapons that flattened both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
His duties included mechanically crushing rock from a nearby riverbed to create
a runway surface with stones about the size of a piece of bubble gum with the
help of an interpreter and fifteen Japanese workers; and

W
hereas, serving in the
Pacific Theater, he was based in Okinawa until November 28, 1946, and was honorably
discharged at Fort Bragg. He stayed in the Army Reserves until 1949; and

W
hereas, the military
certainly had needed the airstrip, but Mr. Redd often wondered if that airbase
were still in operation or if something more advanced had replaced it. He has
learned from local veterans that the Atsugi facility is still in use as one of
the Pacific's largest Navy air bases. After World War II, he worked for forty-one
years in the textile industry for Graniteville Company, putting his maintenance
skills to good use. Then those same talents came in handy as he was hired to be
in charge of maintenance at Gregg Park in the late 1980s; and

W
hereas, in 1952, Mr.
and Mrs. Redd moved into the Breezy Hill house that he still occupies, tending
the household, the garden, and surrounding acreage. Together with his beloved
wife of seventy-three years, the late Effie Gertrude Black Redd, he reared two
fine children, the late Hiram Redd Jr. and Donna Redd Hair. The couple's last
names triggered laughter over the years, Black and Redd; and

W
hereas, his children
blessed him with the affection of four loving grandchildren: Jennifer Redman,
Jodi Tyler, Brandon Hair, and Sara Hoisington. He has had the privilege of
seeing the continuation of his family legacy in seven great-grandchildren:
Hunter Redman, Sydney Redman, Payton Tyler, Emma Caroline Tyler, Abigail Tyler,
Thomas Hair, and Evie Hair; and

W
hereas, Mr. Redd shares
memories with his fellow members of American Legion Post 77 and St. James
Lutheran Church. In 2022, he was part of Graniteville's 2022 Christmas parade
as a representative of the American Legion. The South Carolina House of
Representatives is pleased to honor this son of South Carolina at the
celebration of his one hundredth birthday, and the members join his family and
friends in congratulating him on reaching this extraordinary milestone. Now, therefore,

B
e it resolved by the
House of Representatives
:

T
hat the members of the
South Carolina
House of Representatives
,
by this resolution, congratulate Hiram Julian "Jimmie" Redd of Aiken County on
the occasion of his one hundredth birthday and wish him a joyous birthday
celebration and many years of continued health and happiness.

B
e it further resolved
that a copy of this resolution be presented to Hiram Julian "Jimmie" Redd.

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