SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 37

51st legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2013

INTRODUCED BY

Linda M. Lopez

A JOINT MEMORIAL

REQUESTING THE STATE TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION TO NAME A PORTION OF NEW MEXICO STATE HIGHWAY 120 THE "MARSHAL FRANK LEFEBRE MEMORIAL HIGHWAY".

     WHEREAS, Marshal Frank LeFebre was born April 3, 1916 in Ocate, New Mexico and was educated in the county school in Ocate; and

     WHEREAS, he served in the United States army from January 7, 1941, until the end of the war in 1945, and was part of the forty-fifth division, which crossed the Atlantic ocean from South Carolina to fight against Germany and liberate north Africa; and

     WHEREAS, he then sailed around Africa, stopping in Cape Town, and then continued on to Karachi, Pakistan; Bombay, Calcutta and New Delhi, India; and

     WHEREAS, he then served in the Himalayan mountains and Rangoon, Burma, where he was involved in several skirmishes with Japanese forces; and

     WHEREAS, on his return home he stopped in Australia and arrived in San Francisco, California for his homecoming; and

     WHEREAS, as a public servant, he served as town marshal for the village of Wagon Mound, New Mexico for thirty years, where he is remembered for his dignity and loyalty to his principles and is known to this day as "the last marshal of the west"; and

     WHEREAS, the board of county commissioners of Mora county supports the designation of New Mexico state highway 120, between Ocate and Wagon Mound, as "Marshal Frank LeFebre Memorial Highway";

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the state transportation commission be requested to designate New Mexico state highway 120 between Ocate and Wagon Mound the "Marshal Frank LeFebre Memorial Highway"; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be transmitted to the chair of the board of county commissioners of Mora county, the state transportation commission and the family of Marshal Frank LeFebre.

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