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HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 15
(By Delegates R. Phillips and Tomblin)
Requesting the Division of Highways to name the bridge on Route
119, in Chapmanville, Logan County, at Garrett Fork, bridge
number 23-7-0.33, as the "Curtis Emmet Lowe Bridge".
Whereas, Curtis Emmet Lowe is a resident of Chapmanville, Logan
County, West Virginia; and
Whereas, Curtis Emmet Lowe was born January 18, 1918, at
Wheatley Branch, West Virginia to Joseph and Susan Scragg Lowe, the
youngest of four children. Both parents died before he was nine
years old and he was raised by his grandmother and later an aunt
and uncle; and
Whereas, Curtis Emmet Lowe enlisted in the United States Navy
at the age of eighteen on April 13, 1937. He served on the U.S.S.
Philadelphia for three and a half years. During that service,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt boarded the U.S.S. Philadelphia at
Charleston, South Carolina for a fishing trip to the Turks Island
in the Caribbean. The president was on the ship for a week and was
returned to South Carolina. During this week, the Philadelphia
provided emergency medical attention to a sailor on a Norwegian
ship, for which the Philadelphia and President received a thank you from the King of Norway. Curtis Emmet Lowe received his discharge
on April 25, 1941, in San Diego, California, having served in
Hawaii. He returned home after his sister died and while living on
Godly Branch he heard about the Japanese attach on Pearl Harbor.
He reenlisted in the Navy in July 1942 and shortly thereafter
received a draft notice. He was initially stationed in New York
City where he was joined by his wife and son. Then he served on
the U.S.S. Elizabeth Stanton which had been converted from a cargo
ship to a troop transport. He was sent to North Africa for the
Morocco Landing on November 8 through 11, 1942. He participated in
the Sicilian occupation July 9 through 15, 1943 and the Salerno
Landing in Southern Italy September 9 through 21, 1943. He
returned to the United States for a brief stay and then took a
convoy of sailors and equipment to Scotland; and
Whereas, Curtis Emmet Lowe was on the LST 1008 on the island of
Saipan when WW II ended. He was subsequently honorably discharged
on October 5, 1945 with the rank of Chief Boatswain's Mate. Curtis
Emmet Lowe married Norma Frye on June 1, 1953. They had two
children, Joseph Andrew Lowe, now deceased, and Phyllis L. Lowe.
He had two sons, Curtis E., Jr. and Kenneth, now deceased, with his
first wife, Gertie Stilner; and
Whereas, It is fitting to honor Curtis Emmet Lowe by naming the
bridge at Garrett Fork for Curtis Emmet Lowe; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Legislature hereby requests the Division of Highways
to name the bridge the bridge on Route 119, in Chapmanville, Logan
County, at Garrett Fork, bridge number 23-7-0.33, as the "Curtis
Emmet Lowe 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 "Curtis Emmet Lowe 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 to Mr. Curtis Emmet Lowe and to
his surviving children and relatives.