Warren County Bikeway bridge to be dedicated in memory of military medic

A young woman raised in Queensbury who served her community in various volunteer roles is to be memorialized in several months — with a local pedestrian bridge to bear her name. The bridge carrying the Warren County Bikeway over state Rte. 149 just east of state Rte. 9 is to be dedicated in several weeks as the Kristie Roberts Memorial Bridge, according to a unanimous decision reached July 28 by the county Public Works Committee. The vote, taken after county supervisors heard a presentation by Kristie's parents, is subject to an endorsement of the full county Board of Supervisors at its upcoming August meeting. Kristie Ann Roberts Proctor, born in Glens Falls and a 2002 graduate of Queensbury High School, served in various emergency squads and served the nation as a sergeant in the New York Air National Guard and Army National Guard, her parents Bob and Cindy Roberts told supervisors on Tuesday. Kristie served as a medical specialist with the 466 Area Support Medical Company before committing suicide in Aug. 2012 at the age of 27, they said. "Kristie dedicated her life to helping others, in trying to make the world a better place," Cindy Roberts said about the couple's only child. The Robertses noted that Kristie served Warren County as a volunteer emergency medical technician in the West Glens Falls, Bay Ridge, Lake George and Warrensburg emergency squads before becoming a paramedic and joining the military. Most recently, Kristie served in several Capital Region emergency squads. Years earlier, she had been a junior member of both the West Glens Falls Fire Company and West Glens Falls Emergency Squad, Cindy Roberts said. Kristie had helped form the junior squad of West Glens Falls EMS, she said. "We want to make sure she is never forgotten," her father Bob Roberts said. Roberts added that a sign on the bridge declaring the dedication to Kristie Roberts should include a suicide hotline phone number. The dedication and sign will not cost county taxpayers, assured Queensbury at-large supervisor Mark Westcott, who introduced Cindy and Bob Roberts to the supervisors. Lake Luzerne Supervisor Gene Merlino, who chairs the county Public Works Committee, offered his thoughts after the Robertses made their presentation and the committee voted in support of their bridge-dedication proposal. No parents should ever lose a child," Merlino said. "This dedication will honor Kristie for her service to area communities and the nation."

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