(3) Balogh was detained as a prisoner of war by the
Germans at Stalag 9B Bad Orb Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 50-IX.
(4) For his service, Balogh received a Good Conduct
Medal, American Defense Service Medal and European African
Middle Eastern Service Ribbon.
(5) Balogh was honorably discharged from the United
States Army in 1945.
(b) Designation.--The bridge on Locust Road over Dixon Run
in Green Township, Indiana County, is designated as the
Technician Fourth Grade William Balogh Memorial Bridge.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the bridge to
traffic in both directions on the bridge.
Section 12. The Reverend Andrew William Tilly, Jr., Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) The Reverend Andrew William Tilly, Jr., was born on
July 30, 1926, in Plaquemine Parish, Louisiana, where he
attended elementary school and high school.
(2) After completing the pre-medicine program at Xavier
University, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Reverend Tilly studied
science in the graduate program at the University of New
Mexico.
(3) Before completing his studies at the University of
New Mexico, Reverend Tilly entered the United States Army,
attending the Brooke Army School of Medical Technology at
Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
(4) An Army Sergeant, Reverend Tilly served proudly in
World War II with the F Company, 85th Infantry, at Fort
Riley, Kansas.
(5) Upon receiving his doctor of divinity degree from
Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, Reverend Tilly
was ordained a Baptist minister.
(6) Prior to moving to Johnstown, Reverend Tilly was an
associate pastor of Vine Memorial Baptist Church in
Philadelphia.
(7) Beginning in 1965, Reverend Tilly pastored the
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Johnstown for 47 years.
(8) Reverend Tilly profoundly changed the greater
Johnstown area in the most positive way.
(9) Reverend Tilly established the Pleasant Hill Baptist
Youth Fellowship, which mentored children on Christian
education, values, self-esteem, American citizenship, self-
responsibility, love and respect for others.
(10) In 1968, Reverend Tilly established the Pleasant
Hill Baptist Church Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Memorial Day, one of the longest-running celebrations of Dr.
King's legacy in Pennsylvania.
(11) Reverend Tilly, a faculty member at the University
of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, recruited hundreds of
disadvantaged students across Pennsylvania, giving them an
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