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House OKs measures honoring fallen soldier, police officer

By Jonathan Avise
Following May 12 passage on the House Floor of SF3262, designating a segment of Trunk Highway 28 as the Staff Sergeant Kevin Witte Memorial Highway, Witte’s grandparents, Wesley Herberg and Kathleen Snyder, and his niece, Mikell Burkhart, are acknowledged by members. Witte, of Beardsley, died in 2006 in Baghdad supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Photo by Paul Battaglia
Following May 12 passage on the House Floor of SF3262, designating a segment of Trunk Highway 28 as the Staff Sergeant Kevin Witte Memorial Highway, Witte’s grandparents, Wesley Herberg and Kathleen Snyder, and his niece, Mikell Burkhart, are acknowledged by members. Witte, of Beardsley, died in 2006 in Baghdad supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Photo by Paul Battaglia

A pair of bills to rename stretches of Minnesota highway in honor of a fallen soldier and police officer killed in the line of duty are headed to the governor after passage Thursday by the House.

HF3104/SF2315*, sponsored by Rep. Dean Urdahl (R-Grove City) and Sen. Scott Newman (R-Hutchinson), would designate a segment of Highway 7 in McLeod County as the “Patrol Officer Michael Alan Hogan Memorial Highway.” Hogan was a 15-year police veteran who was shot and killed while responding to a shoplifting call in 1989.

House Floor session - part 2 5/12/16

Passed 124-0 in the House, the bill was passed 60-0 April 27 by the Senate.

The House also passed HF3652/SF3262*, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Backer (R-Browns Valley) and Sen. Torrey Westrom (R-Elbow Lake), that would rename a stretch of Highway 28 between Beardsley and Graceville the “Staff Sergeant Kevin Witte Memorial Highway.”

Passed 124-0 by the House, the bill would honor Kevin Witte, who was killed while serving in Iraq in 2006. It was passed 60-0 by the Senate April 28.  

 

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