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HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 44

(By Delegates R. Miller, Tomblin, Rodighiero, Westfall and Maynard)

[Introduced January 31, 2019]

 

Requesting the Division of Highways name bridge number 03-85/24-0.01 (03A167), locally known as Clinton Camp Road Bridge, carrying CR 85/24 over Pond Fork in Boone County, the “U. S. Marine Corps PFC Randall Carl Phelps Memorial Bridge”.

Whereas, Randall Carl Phelps was born June 4, 1948, in Dorothy, West Virginia to Carl William and Bernice Dale Lee Phelps; he grew up in Boone County where he loved baseball and played in the Pony League each summer and graduated from Van High School in 1967; he was a voracious reader who teased and tormented his brother Steve and sisters, Joy, Jane and Diane without mercy; and

Whereas, Randall Carl Phelps enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and prior to his departure to Vietnam he became engaged to the love of his life, Grace Workman; becoming a Marine was a choice for PFC Phelps, who believed in honor, duty and country and his letters home documented his belief that the people he was defending were deserving of his sacrifice; and

Whereas, PFC Randall Carl Phelps was a member of A Company, 3rd Engineering Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, serving as a Combat Engineer; he was killed in action in Quang Tri Province, The Republic of South Vietnam, on April 8th, 1968, assisting wounded soldiers onto a Medevac chopper during a North Vietnam mortar barrage; and

Whereas, PFC Randall Carl Phelps was awarded the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, the National Defense Service Military Ribbon, the Vietnam Service Military Ribbon, the Defense Distinguished Service Military Ribbon and The Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross. On May 23, 1986, the Academic 1 Facility at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, was dedicated to PFC Phelps and seven other marines who also gave their lives for their country; and

Whereas, Naming the bridge on County Route 85, in Boone County, the “U. S. Marine Corps PFC Randall Carl Phelps Memorial Bridge” is an appropriate recognition of his contributions to his country, state, community and Boone County; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name bridge number 03-85/24-0.01 (03A167), locally known as Clinton Camp Road Bridge, carrying CR 85/24 over Pond Fork in Boone County, the “U. S. Marine Corps PFC Randall Carl Phelps 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 bridge as the “U. S. Marine Corps PFC Randall Carl Phelps Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates forward a copy of this resolution to the Commissioner of the Division of Highways.

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