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WV SCR6

Concurrent Resolution

Status

Passed

4/3/2025

Primary Sponsor

Vince Deeds

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requests the Division of Highways name bridge number 10-077/00-062.66 (Skitter Creek Bridge) on Interstate 77 over Skitter Creek/Coal Haul Road in Fayette County as the "U.S. Army Major Jerome Lee Workman Memorial Bridge"

  • Jerome Lee Workman (1924-2010) served in the 104th Infantry Division Timberwolves and Patton's 3rd Army during World War II, earning the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts

  • As a Private First Class in the Netherlands, Workman single-handedly destroyed a Nazi machine gun nest while under intense fire, was wounded, administered first aid to two comrades, and killed two additional enemy riflemen

  • Workman graduated from West Virginia University with a mining engineering degree, served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers building bridges, and later worked as Vice President of Cedar Co. and as an international mining consultant

  • Directs the Division of Highways to place signs identifying the memorial bridge and the Senate Clerk to forward the resolution to the Commissioner of the Division of Highways

Legislative Description

US Army Major Jerome Lee Workman Memorial Bridge

Last Action

House Message received

4/4/2025

Committee Referrals

Rules3/31/2025
Transportation and Infrastructure 2/17/2025

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