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.