SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 23

(By Senators Stollings, Phillips, Unger, Jeffries, and Lindsay)

[Introduced March 11, 2021]

Requesting the Division of Highways name bridge number 22-007/00-021.18 (22A153), locally known as Myra Pony Truss, carrying CR 7 over Mud River in Lincoln County, the “U.S.M.C. CPL Guy Maywood Edwards Memorial Bridge”.

Whereas, Guy Maywood Edwards was born on September 13, 1918, in Myra, West Virginia, to Hiram Otho Edwards and Elmyra Elizabeth Porter Edwards; and

Whereas, Guy Maywood Edwards graduated from Hamlin High School and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps during the winter of 1942; and

Whereas, Corporal Edwards was serving with the Fourth Division of the Marines and, despite having been wounded in October 1944, on Saipan in the Marina Islands, landed on Iwo Jima on February 20, 1945, ready for duty. CPL Guy Maywood Edwards was killed in action six days later on February 26, 1945; and

Whereas, CPL Guy Maywood Edwards’ brother, PFC Donald Edwards, was also serving in the Fourth Marine Division on Iwo Jima and was wounded on February 28, 1945; and

Whereas, It is fitting that an enduring memorial be established to commemorate CPL Guy Maywood Edwards and his sacrifice 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 22-007/00-021.18 (22A153), locally known as Myra Pony Truss, carrying CR 7 over Mud River in Lincoln County, the “U.S.M.C CPL Guy Maywood Edwards 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.M.C. CPL Guy Maywood Edwards 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.