Local legislators take action to have a road named after the first person from Orfordville to be killed in the line of combat since World War I.

45th Assembly District Representative Clinton Anderson says Corporal Benjamin H. Neal was a 2009 graduate of Parkview High School.

Corporal Neal died in Afghanistan in 2012 after being attacked by an improvised explosive device.

Anderson is co-sponsoring legislation along with fellow Representatives Ellen Schutt, Jenna Jacobson and James Edming, and State Senators Mark Spreitzer and Steve Nass.

The bill would rename the stretch of Highway 11 between Orfordville and Footville as the Corporal Benjamin H. Neal Memorial Highway.