Lance Cpl. Kristopher Cody Warren, of Resaca, was killed in Iraq in 2006 while he was deployed with his Marine Reserve unit. Local legislation to rename 5.4 miles of Ga. 136 as the Cody Warren Memorial Highway will be introduced next week.

Local legislation to rename a 5.4-mile section of Ga. 136 in memory of a local Marine killed in Iraq is scheduled to be introduced on the floor of the Georgia House of Representatives next week.

Rep. John Meadows, R-Calhoun, is sponsoring the bill that will rename the portion of Ga. 136 from U.S. 41 to Ga. 225 as the Cody Warren Memorial Highway.

Warren, a 2005 graduate of Gordon Central High School, was killed Nov. 26, 2006, in a friendly fire incident while he was serving in Iraq with the U.S. Marines. A fellow Marine was court-martialed in Warren’s death.

Meadows said he was approached by Andy Lee, a Gordon Countian who has been working to have Warren honored, about the renaming. “I thought it was a pretty good idea,” Meadows said.

Both the Gordon County Commission and the Resaca Town Council have signed off on the plan, which also has been cleared by the Georgia Department of Transportation.

A legal ad announcing the highway’s name change ran in the Calhoun Times last week.