President Signs Bill to Name Post Office After Local Hero

After a legislative process that took nearly a year, a bill naming a Pasadena post office in honor of an Altadena World War II veteran and postal work has become law.

Departed Altadena resident and World War II veteran, Oliver Goodall, will have the postal office at 281 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena named after him: it will be called the “First Lieutenant Oliver Goodall Post Office."

The postal service is in the process of manufacturing the plaque to name the office, and there will be a ceremony honoring Goodall at the branch some time in the near future, according to Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, who sponsored the legislation.

The original plan was to name the Altadena Post Office after Goodall, but the in June.

Goodall entered the service as a pilot in 1943.  He was also among 60 black U.S. Army Air Corps officers arrested for trying to peacefully integrate an all-white officers’ club, according to Schiff's office. The incident, called the Freeman Field Mutiny, became part of the inspiration for the movement to racially integrate the armed forces.