SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 6

(By Senators Stollings, Kirkendoll and Plymale)

[Introduced January 20, 2016]

Requesting the Division of Highways to name bridge number 3-17-8.80, (3A087) (+38.05862, -81.82542) locally known as the Low Gap Bridge, crossing the Spruce Fork of the Little Coal River on Route 17 in Low Gap, Boone County, the “USMC PFC Marshall Lee King Memorial Bridge”.

Whereas, PFC King was born on July 5, 1924, in Coalwood, McDowell County, and grew up in Low Gap, Boone County. He served in the U. S. Marine Corps and was killed in action on May 19, 1945, on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa. He was awarded the Purple Heart, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and World War II Victory Medal; and

Whereas, It is fitting and proper that PFC King be remembered and acknowledged for his courageous action and dedicated service to his country; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name bridge number 3-17-8.80, (3A087) (+38.05862, -81.82542) locally known as the Low Gap Bridge, crossing the Spruce Fork of the Little Coal River on Route 17 in Low Gap, Boone County, the “USMC PFC Marshall Lee King 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 “USMC PFC Marshall Lee King 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 and to the surviving family of PFC Marshall Lee King.