HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 16

(By Delegates Morgan, Perdue, Hornbuckle, Sobonya, Rohrbach, Miller, Reynolds and Hicks)

January 21, 2016

Requesting the Division of Highways name bridge number 06-35-3.83 (06A086) (38.36457, - 82.37397), locally known as the “Green Valley Bridge,” which, along County Route 35 traverses “Fourpole Creek” in Cabell County, the “U.S. Army PFC John Ira Pinkerman Memorial Bridge.”

Whereas, John Ira Pinkerman was born in Huntington, West Virginia in 1921 and was raised on Green Valley Road near Bowen Ridge in Cabell County; and

Whereas, PFC Pinkerman married Geneva Frances Alley in 1941. They had one child, John Alan Pinkerman, born May 19, 1943; and

Whereas, PFC Pinkerman was drafted into the U.S. Army on January 18, 1944; and

Whereas, PFC Pinkerman was killed in action in Northeast France on January 12, 1945. He is one of five thousand two hundred and fifty-five soldiers laid to rest in the U.S. Military Cemetery in Epinal France; and

Whereas, It is fitting and proper that PFC John Ira Pinkerman be remembered and acknowledged for his dedicated service to this country; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name bridge number. 06-35-3.83 (06A086) (38.36457, - 82.37397), locally known as the “Green Valley Bridge,” which, along County Route 35 traverses “Fourpole Creek” in Cabell County, the “U.S. Army PFC John Ira Pinkerman Memorial Bridge; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of the Division of Highways is hereby requested to erect signs at both ends of the bridge containing bold and prominent letters proclaiming the bridge the “U.S. Army PFC John Ira Pinkerman Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates forward a certified copy of this concurrent resolution to the Secretary of the Department of Transportation and all surviving family members of PFC John Ira Pinkerman.