[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 147 (Wednesday, September 20, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1816]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                IN MEMORY OF POLICE OFFICER MELVIN KEDDY

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                      HON. WILLIAM H. ZELIFF, JR.

                            of new hamphire

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 20, 1995
  Mr. ZELIFF. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to the cherished 
memory of Police Officer Melvin Alan Keddy, who was struck and killed 
while directing traffic at the scene of another accident. Mel Keddy is 
remembered by all who knew him as a good police officer and a friend.
  The community has shown their love, respect, and friendship by the 
many messages left on the roadside, wooden cross erected at the site of 
Officer Mel Keddy's fatal accident. His friends and neighbors have left 
flowers, candles, messages, and balloons at this makeshift memorial.
  As Police Chief Philip Consentino of neighboring Atkinson said, 
``Every police officer knows deep in his heart that every day you put 
on your badge, you can be killed in the line of duty. You don't expect 
it will happen, but when you see something like this, you know your 
fears are real and it could happen to you.''
  At the time of his death, Mel Keddy had been organizing a golf 
tournament to benefit the East Kingston Drug Abuse Resistance Education 
[DARE] Program. The fundraiser for the DARE Program typifies the life 
and career of Officer Keddy. He was a loyal friend, a dedicated 
officer, and always willing to take on another task to help improve the 
community where he lived.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join with me in honoring the life 
and service of Police Officer Mel Keddy and join me in expressing the 
heartfelt sympathy of the Members of the U.S. Congress to his son, 
Shayne, his daughter, Shyre, and his mother, Genieva A. Keddy.


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