HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 74

(By Delegates Perry, Staggers and Pino)

Requesting the Division of Highways to name the pedestrian bridge, numbered 10-19/580.01, on U.S. Route 19 near Fayetteville, Fayette County, as the “Deputy Roger Lee Treadway Memorial Bridge.”

    Whereas, Deputy Treadway was born May 5, 1950, in Oak Hill, Fayette County; and

    Whereas, Following his graduation from Fayetteville High School in 1969, Deputy Treadway joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served his country in Vietnam; and

    Whereas, Upon returning home from Vietnam, Deputy Treadway attended the State Police Academy, graduating in November 1973; and

    Whereas, Deputy Treadway spent four and a half years serving first in the Fayetteville Police Department and later in the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department; and

    Whereas, Deputy Treadway was tragically killed in the line of duty on October 8, 1975, near Hico, Fayette County, by an assailant, while he and his partner were rendering aid to a motorist; and

    Whereas, It is fitting to honor Deputy Treadway’s life and service by naming bridge number 10-19/580.01 near Fayetteville after him; therefore, be it

    Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

    That the Legislature hereby requests the Division of Highways to name the pedestrian bridge, numbered 10-19/580.01, on U.S. Route 19 near Fayetteville, Fayette County, as the “Deputy Roger Lee Treadway 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 “Deputy Roger Lee Treadway Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

    Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates forward a certified copy of this resolution to the Secretary of the Department of Transportation; and Deputy Treadway’s surviving relatives.