HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 50

(By Delegate Higginbotham)

[Introduced March 15, 2021]

Requesting the Division of Highways name bridge number: 18-021/22-000.49  (18A245), (38.82556, -81.69897) locally known as SYCAMORE CREEK BRIDGE #1 (SCBB), carrying CR 21/22 over SYCAMORE CREEK in Jackson county, the “U. S. Army Air Corps Chief Warrant Officer 3 Daniel Okey Cunningham Memorial Bridge”.

Whereas, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Daniel Okey Cunningham was born September 29, 1941, in Ripley, a son of the late Okey and Mildred Kay Cunningham. He enlisted in the U. S. Army at a young age and served during the Korean War.  After his active service duty; he entered the Reserves. He retired from the military reserve service just a few years before his death on August 22, 2015, from lung cancer; and

Whereas, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Daniel Okey Cunningham retired from Kaiser Aluminum where he was a steelworker. He was a member of the Ripley Masonic Lodge #16 AF & AM, American Legion Post 107, Jackson County Beekeepers Association, the Military Officers Association of America, and a talented woodworker; and

Whereas, It is fitting that an enduring memorial be established to commemorate Chief Warrant Officer 3 Daniel Okey Cunningham and his 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: 18-021/22-000.49 (18A245), (38.82556, -81.69897) locally known as SYCAMORE CREEK BRIDGE #1 (SCBB), carrying CR 21/22 over SYCAMORE CREEK in Jackson county, the “U. S. Army Air Corps Chief Warrant Officer 3 Daniel Okey Cunningham 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. Army Air Corps Chief Warrant Officer 3 Daniel Okey Cunningham 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.