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PRINTER'S NO. 2051
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1342
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY LANGERHOLC, OCTOBER 2, 2020
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 2, 2020
AN ACT
Designating the bridge, identified as Bridge Key 8659, carrying
State Route 3037, also known as William Penn Avenue, over the
Norfolk Southern and Lehigh Valley Rail Management rail lines
in the City of Johnstown, Cambria County, as the Reverend
Andrew William Tilly, Jr., Bridge.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. 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
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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
opportunity for a college education.
(12) Reverend Tilly ordained dozens of reverends and
deacons and was honored by the Pennsylvania and National
Baptist Conventions for outstanding service.
(13) Reverend Tilly is respected in greater Johnstown
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for his beautiful deeds and his greeting every Sunday for
over 40 years to the congregation, "The wages of sin is death
but the gift of God is eternal life."
(14) Reverend Tilly died on July 13, 2020, in
Philadelphia.
(b) Designation.--The bridge, identified as Bridge Key 8659,
carrying State Route 3037, also known as William Penn Avenue,
over the Norfolk Southern and Lehigh Valley Rail Management rail
lines in the City of Johnstown, Cambria County, is designated
the Reverend Andrew William Tilly, Jr., Bridge.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the bridge to
traffic in both directions.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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