Bill Text: WV SCR4 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requesting DOH name bridge in Boone County "James 'Eddie' Mooney Memorial Bridge"

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)

Status: (Passed) 2013-03-11 - House Message received [SCR4 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2013-SCR4-Introduced.html

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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 4

(By Senators Stollings, Green, D. Hall and Kirkendoll)

 

 

 

Requesting the Division of Highways to name the Falling Rock Bridge in Boone County, bridge number 3-1-8.75, the “James ‘Eddie’ Mooney Memorial Bridge”.

    Whereas, James “Eddie” Mooney was born on December 19, 1958; and

    Whereas, James “Eddie” Mooney lived in Ashford, Boone County, West Virginia; and

    Whereas, James “Eddie” Mooney attended Sherman High School in Seth, West Virginia; and

    Whereas, James “Eddie” Mooney was a loving husband to his high school sweetheart, Sheila Kirk Mooney, for thirty-three years; and

    Whereas, James “Eddie” Mooney was a loving dad to his children Misty Case and Austin Mooney; and

    Whereas, James “Eddie” Mooney loved life and loved to laugh; and

    Whereas, James “Eddie” Mooney enjoyed taking his son hunting and fishing, and enjoyed camping and four wheeling; and

    Whereas, James “Eddie” Mooney was a member of Rumble Community Baptist Church; and

    Whereas, James “Eddie” Mooney was a lifelong coal miner; and

    Whereas, James “Eddie” Mooney lost his life at the age of fifty-one, on April 5, 2010, in Raleigh County, one of the twenty-nine miners who died in the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster; and

    Whereas, It is fitting and proper that the memory of James “Eddie” Mooney be honored by naming the Falling Rock Bridge in Boone County, bridge number 3-1-8.75, the “James ‘Eddie’ Mooney Memorial Bridge”; therefore, be it

    Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

    That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name the Falling Rock Bridge in Boone County, bridge number 3-1-8.75, the “James ‘Eddie’ Mooney 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 “James ‘Eddie’ Mooney 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 Secretary of the Department of Transportation and to the surviving family of James “Eddie” Mooney.