SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 5

By Senators Woelfel, Plymale, Jeffries and Beach

[Introduced February 8, 2017]

Requesting the Division of Highways name bridge number 06-35-3.83 (06A086) (38.36457, - 82.37397), locally known as the Green Valley Bridge, along County Route 35 traversing 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, John Ira Pinkerman married Geneva Frances Alley in 1941 and they had one child, John Alan Pinkerman, born May 19, 1943; and

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

Whereas, PFC John Ira Pinkerman was killed in action in Northeast France on January 12, 1945; he is one of five thousand two hundred 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, along County Route 35 traversing 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 have made and be placed signs identifying the bridge as the “U. S. Army PFC John Ira Pinkerman Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the Commissioner of the Division of Highways.