Steve Rothman: “I rise in support of H.R. 3939, a bill to rename the main post office in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, the town I live in…”

“I rise in support of H.R. 3939, a bill to rename the main post office in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, the town I live in, within my district, as the Mary Ann Collura Post Office. It has been a year since we lost Mary Ann, who served on the Fair Lawn Police Force for 18 years. She was the first female police officer in Fair Lawn history. She was killed in the line of duty on April 17, 2003. Mary Ann was backing up another police officer from the district of the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pascrell), Steven Farrell, who was in the course of arresting three men charged with robbery following a car chase that ended outside a church in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. It was at that point that Officer Farrell was wounded and Officer Collura was fatally wounded. Throughout her life, as the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone) so eloquently said, Mary Ann embodied what is best about the people in our communities in New Jersey, and perhaps in all of America. She was kind, she was generous, she was courageous, she was a pioneer, and she was a person who truly cared about her community.”