 This morning, a ceremony was held to name a section of Kentucky 122 in Floyd County in memory of Debbie Ferguson Hall, a long-time employee of the Floyd County School System. Friends and family of Debbie Hall, as well as local elected officials gathered outside the former South Floyd High School where Hall worked until her sudden death nearly a year ago. If you ask anyone, she ran the school. She was the school. The kids here loved her because she loved the kids. She respected the kids. The kids didn't fear her. They respected her because she showed them love as she showed myself and my brother. Transportation Cabinet officials say nearly two miles of Kentucky 122 near the entrance to the school will now be called the Debbie Ferguson Hall Memorial Highway. Chief District Engineer for Highway District 12 Mary Westfall Holbrook says events like these are a welcome break from the normal day-to-day routine. They see us as construction or maintenance. We're generally with the yellow shirts and that's all that they see. But we do have another side where we do dedications like this and we honor people that as the legislators add these signings to their bills and things, we're able to facilitate this. After an emotional sign unveiling, Debbie Hall's husband Greg presented the first Debbie Hall Memorial Scholarship to a recent high school graduate. And we're giving her $500 to start her college education with. And her name is Vanessa Hall. Reporting from Floyd County, I'm Shannon Deskins for EKB News.