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A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Senator C.B. Embry Jr. Memorial 1
Highway in Butler County. 2
WHEREAS, Senator C.B. Embry Jr., son of the late Carlos B. Sr. and Zora Romans 3
Embry, was born July 29, 1941, in Louisville, Kentucky; and 4
WHEREAS, Senator C.B. Embry Jr. was a 1963 graduate of Western Kentucky 5
University and completed course work at Duke University and Kentucky Wesleyan 6
College; and 7
WHEREAS, Senator C.B. Embry Jr. was the embodiment of a public servant and 8
was elected to public office 12 times to 5 different offices. He was elected to the 9
Kentucky House of Representatives in 2002, where he served the citizens of District 17 10
until he was elected to represent the citizens of District 6 as a member of the state Senate 11
in 2014; and 12
WHEREAS, Senator C.B. Embry Jr. was active in his community, having been 13
elected president or chairman of 18 different local, regional, or statewide organizations; 14
and 15
WHEREAS, Senator C.B. Embry Jr. was a retired teacher, newspaper editor, and 16
businessman; and 17
WHEREAS, Senator C.B. Embry Jr., a member of the First Baptist Church in 18
Morgantown, was a person of deep faith who served as a Sunday school director and 19
deacon; and 20
WHEREAS, on Thursday, September 29, 2022, Senator C.B. Embry Jr. passed 21
away after a long illness, leaving his family, friends, and community mourning his 22
passing; and 23
WHEREAS, it is fitting and proper that the contributions of Senator C.B. Embry Jr. 24
be memorialized in some tangible way; 25
NOW, THEREFORE, 26
Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 27 UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS BR 1200
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ď˘Section 1. The Transportation Cabinet shall designate the portion of United 1
States Route 231 in Butler County, from Kentucky Route 70 (mile point 11.513) to the 2
Butler/Ohio County line (mile point 18.846), as the "Senator C.B. Embry Jr. Memorial 3
Highway", and shall within 30 days of the effective date of this Resolution, erect 4
appropriate signage denoting this designation. 5