HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 111

(By Delegate Fast)

[Introduced February 25, 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 “U. S. Air Force Major Mary Lafferty Coll, D.O. 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, She 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, she 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, She became a family practice doctor; and

Whereas, 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 U. S. Air Force 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 “U. S. Air Force 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 “U. S. Air Force 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.