HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 54

(By Delegates Hartman, Isner, Sponaugle and Lynch)

[Introduced March 7, 2017]

Requesting the Division of Highways to name the Keren’s Bridge on Corridor H (U.S. Route 48) located in Kerens, Randolph County, Bridge Number 42-48-41.0 NB-SB (42A211 & 42A212) at latitude 39.01366, longitude -79.81116, originally called the Kerens Bridge Lazy Run, the “U.S. Army PVT Preston D. Vanscoy Memorial Bridge”.

Whereas, Private Preston D. Vanscoy was born at Kerens in Randolph County, West Virginia on April 26, 1912.  Prior to entering the military service to serve in WWII he was employed by Monongahela Power Company.  He trained at Camp Walters, Texas and Fort George B. Meade in Maryland before entering the war. After receiving his military training, he was sent overseas to France to enter combat against the German military. Private Vanscoy was engaged in ferocious combat against the German military in Normandy, Northern France and the Rhineland and Ardennes-Alsace in Central Europe as a member of the United States Army, 134^th Infantry Regiment, 35^th Infantry Division. Private Vanscoy was killed in action in France on September 30, 1944, and for his courage exhibited in combat, he was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart; and

Whereas, The ultimate sacrifice made by PVT Preston D. Vanscoy in service to his country should not go unnoticed; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Commissioner of the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name the Keren’s Bridge on Corridor H (U.S. Route 48) located in Kerens, Randolph County, Bridge Number 42-48-41.0 NB-SB (42A211 & 42A212) at latitude 39.01366, longitude -79.81116, originally called the Kerens Bridge Lazy Run, the “U.S. Army PVT Preston D. Vanscoy 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 proclaiming the bridge the “U.S. Army PVT Preston D. Vanscoy Memorial 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.