HJR 74

UNOFFICIAL COPY  26 RS BR 1900
1A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Tucker Daniel Memorial Highway in
2 Johnson County.
3WHEREAS, Roger T. "Tucker" Daniel was born on August 30, 1939, to the late
4 Frances Colvin Short and Carl Daniel in Thealka, Kentucky; and
5WHEREAS, Tucker Daniel graduated with honors from Meade Memorial High
6 School in Williamsport, Kentucky, in 1957; and
7WHEREAS, Tucker Daniel started his career with Kentucky West Virginia Gas in
8 Prestonsburg, Kentucky, as an entry-level meter reader, and steadily rose in the ranks
9 until he was appointed president in 1990, a position he held until his retirement in 1996;
10 and
11WHEREAS, Tucker Daniel was elected to the office of Johnson County
12 judge/executive in 1998, and was reelected three times until he retired from the position
13 in 2018; and
14WHEREAS, Tucker Daniel took great pride in his position as judge/executive and
15 always tried to put his community first, as evidenced by his solving the county's crippling
16 deficit and credit crisis in the first two years of his first term; and
17WHEREAS, Tucker Daniel's experience in the private sector, networking with state
18 officials to pass a pooling ordinance fee, and lobbying state and federal agencies to
19 improve the quality of life in Johnson County, showed immediate results; and
20WHEREAS, Tucker Daniel also obtained additional funding for volunteer fire
21 departments in the county, brought drastic improvements to water quality, updated sewer
22 lines, improved county roads, and oversaw the construction and upgrade of the Johnson
23 County Judicial Center, Paintsville Post Office, Johnson County Senior Citizens Center,
24 and Johnson County Veteran's Referral Center; and
25WHEREAS, Tucker Daniel was deeply involved in the community outside of his
26 work as judge executive, participating in youth sports in the county, helping with the Boy
27 Scouts of America, and serving as the Executive Director of the Paintsville/Johnson
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1 County Chamber of Commerce, President of the Kentucky Association of Counties, and a
2 member of the Kentucky mines and minerals board; and
3WHEREAS, in honor of his service as judge/executive, Tucker Daniel was
4 distinguished as a member of the Kentucky GOP Hall of Fame in 2004; and
5WHEREAS, at his death in 2019, Tucker Daniel was survived by his beloved wife
6 Page Brickley; his sons Roger D. and Scott Daniel; his grandchildren John Thomas, Scott
7 Triplett, Kash, Julia Page, and Samuel Roger Daniel; his siblings Jimmy Ray Short,
8 Debbie Kay Wheeler, Joan Cox, and Beverly Davis; and many other friends and family
9 members who cherished him deeply; and
10WHEREAS, Tucker Daniel was loved and will be missed by the community of
11 Johnson County, and his memory and many contributions to the county are worthy of
12 tangible recognition;
13NOW, THEREFORE,
14 Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:
15Section 1.       The Transportation Cabinet shall designate a portion of Kentucky
16 Route 40 in Johnson County, from United States Route 460 to Kentucky Route 321, as
17 the "Tucker Daniel Memorial Highway" and shall, within 30 days of the effective date of
18 this Resolution, erect appropriate signage denoting this designation.
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