HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 69

(By Delegates C. Martin, Rowan, Bibby, J. Jeffries, Hanna, P. Martin, Howell, Phillips, Worrell, Fast)

[Introduced February 7, 2020]

Requesting the Division of Highways name bridge number: 49-016/00-002.95  () (49A038), (38.93283, -80.15943) locally known as Sand Run Slab NO. 2, carrying CR 16 over Sand Run in Upshur County, the “U. S. Air Force Senior Airman Luke Christopher Wamsley Memorial Bridge”.

Whereas, Senior Airman Luke Christopher Wamsley was born September 28, 1986, in Buckhannon, West Virginia, son of Dion Wamsley, a resident of Buckhannon, West Virginia, and Janice Wamsley Rollins, now a resident of Burlington, Vermont.  He graduated from Spaulding High School in Barre, Vermont, where he later became a substitute teacher. He was a 2009 graduate at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, and served in Afghanistan in 2013. Luke received 12 federal medals, including the Air Force Achievement Medal, Meritorious Unit Award, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award and Afghanistan Campaign Medal. He also received four state medals; and

Whereas, Luke worked as a senior airman for the Green Mountain Boys, Vermont National Air Guard where he served as a CE electrician, from 2009 until the time of his death on September 23, 2015, while on duty in the Vermont National Air Guard; and

Whereas, It is fitting that an enduring memorial be established to commemorate Senior Airman Luke Christopher Wamsley, a true son of West Virginia, 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: 49-016/00-002.95  () (49A038), (38.93283, -80.15943) locally known as Sand Run Slab NO. 2, carrying CR  16 over Sand Run in Upshur County, the “U. S. Air Force Senior Airman Luke Christopher Wamsley Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to erect signs in bold and prominent letters identifying the bridge as the “U. S. Air Force Senior Airman Luke Christopher Wamsley 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.