HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 4
(By Delegates Browning and Burdiss)
[Introduced January 18, 2007; Referred to the
Committee on Rules.]
Requesting the Division of Highways to name the bridge numbered
10251 on Charley Hatfield Road, State Route 6, the "Rodney
Morgan Memorial Bridge" and the bridge numbered 2305 on County
Route 6/2 leading into Coal Mountain,
the "Rodney 'Ronnie'
Staton Memorial Bridge".
Whereas, Rodney Morgan was born in 1950 to the parents of Azzie
and Martha Morgan of Simon, West Virginia; and
Whereas
, Rodney Morgan attended Long Branch Elementary School
and went on to graduate from Baileysville High School; and
Whereas
, Rodney Morgan joined the military in 1970 and was sent
to Vietnam in December of that year where he was killed in action
on January 5, 1971, at the age of 21 and being in Vietnam for only
a few weeks; and
Whereas
, Rodney "Ronnie" Staton was born on November 21, 1942,
to the parents of Garland and Veatrice Staton; and
Whereas
, Ronnie Staton lived in Guyan, West Virginia where he
attended Coal Mountain Elementary School and went on to graduate
from Baileysville High School; and
Whereas
, In February of 1963, Ronnie Staton enlisted in the
Army, completing basic training at Fort Gordon, Georgia. Deciding
to make the military his career, Ronnie Staton reenlisted with the
Army in 1966 and was sent to the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell,
Kentucky, where he served as a drill instructor for the artillery
unit; and
Whereas
, In May of 1966, Ronnie Staton was sent to Vietnam
where he was promoted to Gunnery Sergeant in the 2nd and 19th
artillery, a part of the 101st Airborne. Ronnie Staton was killed
in action on December 27, 1966
; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Legislature hereby requests the Division of Highways
to
name the bridge numbered 10251 on Charley Hatfield Road, State
Route 6, the "Rodney Morgan Memorial Bridge" and the bridge
numbered 2305 on County Route 6/2 leading into Coal Mountain,
the
"Rodney 'Ronnie' Staton Memorial Bridge"
; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Division of Highways is requested
to have made and placed on the bridges signs identifying them as
the "Rodney Morgan Memorial Bridge"
and the "Rodney 'Ronnie' Staton
Memorial Bridge"
, respectively
; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates is
hereby requested to forward a certified copy of this resolution to
the Secretary of Transportation, the Commissioner of the Division
of Highways and the family of the heroes of this resolution.
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