WEST virginia legislature

2016 regular session

Committee Substitute

for

Senate Concurrent Resolution 53

(By Senators Prezioso, Williams, Stollings and Plymale)

[Originating in the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; reported on March 8, 2016]

Requesting Division of Highways name bridge number 25-218-4.69 (25A219), carrying West Virginia Route 218 over Buffalo Creek, and connecting the town of Farmington to U. S. Route 250 in Marion County, the “Harry C. ‘Buck’ Markley Jr. Memorial Bridge”.

Whereas, Harry C. “Buck” Markley, was born on May 27, 1935, in Farmington, West Virginia. He was the son of Harry and Virginia Pyles Markley.  He graduated from Farmington High School and worked in Marion County at Wall Plaster and Angelucci Trucking before transitioning to the coal fields of the Four States, Blacksville and Grant Town mines. He served as a federal mine inspector from 1972 through 1996 and was a member of the Four States, Blacksville and the federal mine rescue teams; and

Whereas, Harry Markley was a devoted public servant, serving on the Farmington Town Council and as Mayor of Farmington for eighteen years, as well as serving with the Farmington Volunteer Fire Department for forty-five years, and forty years as chief of Company Seven. During Harry Markley’s career in public service he also served on the Marion County Fire Board.  As Mayor, Harry Markley took the steps necessary to make Farmington easily accessible by leading the effort to reconstruct the bridge connecting Farmington to U. S. Route 250 in 1985; and

Whereas, Harry Markley passed away on June 23, 2015, in his home in Marion County. He has been an outstanding citizen and leader of Farmington and it is fitting that Harry C. “Buck” Markley Jr.’s legacy is memorialized on the very bridge that he helped to create; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name bridge number 25-218-4.69 (25A219), carrying West Virginia Route 218 over Buffalo Creek, and connecting the town of Farmington to U. S. Route 250 in Marion County, the “Harry C. ‘Buck’ Markley Jr. Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of the Division of Highways is hereby requested to have made and be placed signs identifying the “Harry C. ‘Buck’ Markley Jr. Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the Commissioner of the Division of Highways and to Mayor Donna Costello.