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Senate Concurrent Resolution 4 History
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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.