Post Office Dedication for Altadena Hero on Jan. 14

An official naming ceremony will take place on Jan. 14 for a Pasadena post office to be named after an Altadena war hero.

Departed Altadena resident Oliver Goodall served with the Tuskegee Airmen group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II as part of the era when the armed forces were not integrated.

The post office at 281 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena will be named after him: It will be called the “First Lieutenant Oliver Goodall Post Office."

Goodall was among 60 African-American U.S. Army Air Corps officers arrested for trying to peacefully integrate an all-white officers’ club, which came to be known as the Freeman Field Mutiny, according to a press release from Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, who introduced the bill to have the post office named after Goodall.

Goodall worked for the U.S. Postal Service following his time in the military.

The ceremony and a reception will be at the post office location from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and Schiff will attend and speak.

The original legislation was to name the after Goodall, but the  in June.