PRINTER'S NO. 2345
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1754
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY CAUSER, BURNS, CALTAGIRONE, CONKLIN, COX,
DiGIROLAMO, IRVIN, KIM, KINSEY, KORTZ, LONGIETTI, MILLARD,
MURT, NEILSON, PICKETT, PYLE, RYAN, SAINATO, SONNEY AND
STAATS, AUGUST 16, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, AUGUST 16, 2019
AN ACT
Designating a bridge on that portion of State Route 4021 over
the Honeoye Creek, Sharon Township, Potter County, as the Tec
5 C. Virgil Voorhees Memorial Bridge.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Tec 5 C. Virgil Voorhees Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) Technician Fifth Grade C. Virgil Voorhees gave his
life in service to his country during World War II.
(2) Tec 5 Voorhees served as a driver and radioman for
the first platoon headquarters of Battery A, 155th Airborne
Anti-Aircraft Battalion, United States Army.
(3) On March 24, 1945, Tec 5 Voorhees was killed
instantly by enemy artillery fire as he was driving his jeep
across open terrain in Germany.
(4) Tec 5 Voorhees grew up in a house along Honeoye
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