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A01764
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1215
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY TOBASH, APRIL 17, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 17, 2017
AN ACT
Designating the bridge on State Route 125 before Ridge Road in
Pitman, Schuylkill County, as the Abner Yoder Memorial
Bridge.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Abner Yoder Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) Abner Yoder graduated from Hegins High School in
1936, was active in his local church and played on the
Pitman's Farmers baseball team.
(2) On July 18, 1941, he joined the United States Army
Air Corps and rose to the level of Technical Sergeant by
August of 1943.
(3) During his time in the Air Corps, he traveled to
Australia, where he met his fiancée and joined a combat crew
which flew missions on a B-52.
(4) On February 17, 1944, the plane he was on with his
crew had engine troubles and attempted to return to the base
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but stalled and crashed. The entire crew, including Abner
Yoder, was killed in the plane crash.
(5) Abner Yoder was 26 at the time of his death and he
was buried at the Manila American Cemetery in Manila, near
other fallen members of the Armed Forces.
(b) Designation.--The bridge on State Route 125 before Ridge
Road in Pitman, Schuylkill County, is hereby designated the
Abner Yoder Memorial Bridge.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway
bridge to traffic in both directions on the highway bridge.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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