HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 10
(By Delegates Cann, Iaquinta, Fragale and Miley)
Requesting the Division of Highways to name the bridge crossing
Simpson Creek on United States Route 50 in downtown
Bridgeport, the "Lloyd L. Lang Bridge."
Whereas, Lloyd L. Lang was a longtime resident of the City of
Bridgeport, Harrison County, West Virginia and Mr. Lang and his
wife of 48 years, Crystal Wooddell Lang, and their family made
their home on Grand Avenue in Bridgeport; and
Whereas, Lloyd L. Lang served his country in the United States
Army from 1946 to 1949, and upon his return to Bridgeport in 1949
from military service in Germany, Lloyd Lang and his brother Jim
founded Lang Bothers, Inc., a Bridgeport-based construction and
natural resources company; and
Whereas, Over the span of more than 57 years, Lang Brothers
became known throughout the region as one of the most respected
heavy equipment, mining and road construction contractors in West
Virginia and was entrusted with the construction of numerous bridge
projects including several in Harrison County; and
Whereas, For Lloyd Lang, one of the highlights to the company?s
impressive list of road and bridge projects over more than fifty years was the construction of the Main Street Bridge in his
hometown of Bridgeport, West Virginia; and
Whereas, On West Virginia Day, June 20, 2006, Lloyd L. Lang
passed away at the age of seventy-seven after complications from a
thirty-year battle with Parkinson?s Disease; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Legislature hereby requests the Division of Highways
to name the bridge crossing Simpson Creek on United States Route 50
in downtown Bridgeport the "Lloyd L. Lang Bridge"; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Division of Highways is requested
to have made and be placed signs identifying the bridge as the
"Lloyd L. Lang Bridge"; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates
forward a certified copy of this resolution to the Secretary of the
Department of Transportation, the Commissioner of the Division of
Highways and the family of Lloyd L. Lang.
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