COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 111

By Delegate Fast

(Originating in the Committee on Technology and Infrastructure
February 29, 2020)

Requesting the Division of Highways name bridge number 10-077/00-061.20 (10A237), (37.98696, -81.30559), locally known as Turnpike Bridge, carrying I-77, I-64 over Milburn Creek in Fayette County, the “USAF Major Mary Lafferty Coll Memorial Bridge”.

Whereas, Mary Lafferty Coll was born March 8, 1969, in Raleigh County to Billie B. and Mary Ellen Lafferty and was reared in Fayette County by a second-generation coal mining family; and

Whereas, Mary Lafferty Coll won the Golden Horseshoe Award in middle school; and

Whereas, USAF Major Mary Lafferty Coll served in the U. S. Air Force until she was given an honorable medical discharge for a heart condition; and

Whereas, Despite being a battered and single mother of two children, USAF Major Mary Lafferty Coll worked to put herself through college and graduated pre-med from the College of West Virginia and graduated as a Doctor of Osteopathy from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine; and

Whereas, USAF Major Mary Lafferty Coll became a family practice doctor; and

Whereas, USAF Major Mary Lafferty Coll died January 7, 2015, and was buried in the Willis Branch Cemetery; and

Whereas, It is fitting that an enduring memorial be established to commemorate USAF Major Mary Lafferty Coll and her contributions to our state and country; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name bridge number 10-077/00-061.20 (10A237), (37.98696, -81.30559), locally known as Turnpike Bridge, carrying I-77, I-64 over Milburn Creek in Fayette County, the “USAF Major Mary Lafferty Coll Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to have made and be placed signs identifying the bridge as the “USAF Major Mary Lafferty Coll Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House forward a copy of this resolution to the Commissioner of the Division of Highways.