HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 29

(By Delegates Manchin, Caputo and Longstreth)

January 29, 2016

Requesting the Division of Highways to name bridge number 25-218-4.69 (25A219), carrying West Virginia Route 218 over Buffalo Creek, and connecting the town of Farmington to United States Route 250, the “Harry C. “Buck” Markley Jr. Memorial Bridge.”

Whereas, Harry C. “Buck” Markley, was born on May 27, 1935, in Farmington, West Virginia. He was the son of Harry and Virginia Pyles Markley.  He graduated from Farmington High School and worked in Marion County at Wall Plaster and Angelucci Trucking before transitioning to the coal fields of the Four States, Blacksville, and Grant Town mines. He served as a federal mine inspector from 1972 through 1996 and was a member of the Four States, Blacksville, and the federal mine rescue teams; and

Whereas, Harry Markley was a devoted public servant, serving on the Farmington Town Council and as Mayor of Farmington for eighteen years, as well as serving with the Farmington Volunteer Fire Department for forty-five years, and forty years as chief of Company Seven. During Harry Markley’s career in public service, he also served on the Marion County Fire Board.  As mayor, Harry Markley took the steps necessary to make Farmington easily accessible by leading the effort to reconstruct the bridge connecting Farmington to United States Route 250 in 1985; and

Whereas, Harry Markley passed away on June 23, 2015, in his home in Marion County. He has been an outstanding citizen and leader of Farmington, and it is fitting that Harry C. “Buck” Markley Jr.’s legacy is memorialized on the very bridge that he helped to create; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name bridge number 25-218-4.69 (25A219), carrying West Virginia Route 218 over Buffalo Creek in Marion County, the “Harry C. “Buck” Markley Jr. Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of the Division of Highways is hereby requested to erect signs at both ends of the bridge containing bold and prominent letters proclaiming the bridge the “Harry C. “Buck” Markley Jr. Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates forward a certified copy of this resolution to the Commissioner of the Division of Highways and to Mrs. Carolyn Sue Bazan Markley.