[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 124 (Thursday, September 28, 2006)]
[House]
[Pages H7888-H7889]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 BEVERLY J. WILSON POST OFFICE BUILDING

  Mr. MARCHANT. Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the 
bill (H.R. 4720) to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 200 Gateway Drive in Lincoln, California, as the 
``Beverly J. Wilson Post Office Building''.
  The Clerk read as follows

                               H.R. 4720

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. BEVERLY J. WILSON POST OFFICE BUILDING.

       (a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal 
     Service located at 200 Gateway Drive in Lincoln, California, 
     shall be known and designated as the ``Beverly J. Wilson Post 
     Office Building''.
       (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
     document, paper, or other record of the United States to the 
     facility referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be 
     a reference to the ``Beverly J. Wilson Post Office 
     Building''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Marchant) and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis) each 
will control 20 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.


                             General Leave

  Mr. MARCHANT. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their 
remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under 
consideration.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Texas?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. MARCHANT. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, in the town of Lincoln, California, Beverly Wilson was 
known not just a postal carrier but also as a dear friend and a 
community fixture. She lived in Lincoln for 50 years and worked for the 
postal service for nearly 30 of those years.
  She went out of her way to get to know her customers personally, and 
she always took new employees under her wing. She was known throughout 
Lincoln for her famous pomegranate jelly and baked pies, but above all 
else her community remembers her kind spirit, generosity and warmth.
  Beverly Wilson will be deeply missed by all of the people whose lives 
she touched.
  I urge all Members to join me in naming this post office in her 
honor.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I 
might consume.
  Madam Speaker, H.R. 4720, legislation introduced by Representative 
John Doolittle designates the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 200 Gateway Drive in Lincoln, California, as the 
Beverly J. Wilson Post Office Building.
  Beverly Wilson, 65, and a resident of Lincoln, California, was a 
rural letter carrier for the United States Postal Service. Mrs. Wilson 
was delivering mail in her postal Jeep when she was rear-ended and 
killed, ending a 26-year career with the United States Postal Service.
  Ms. Wilson was 4 weeks away from retirement. Madam Speaker, I can 
imagine that oftentimes individuals who do the work that Ms. Wilson did 
do not have monuments erected or buildings named for them. But 
delivering the mail is a very important function. People wait to 
receive it. They need it. They want it. And one of the ways that we 
honor her, as well as the other thousands of letter carriers throughout 
the country is by naming this facility after Ms. Beverly J. Wilson.
  I urge its passage.
  Ms. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, Beverly Wilson, ``Bev'' as she was known, 
was many things: a mother of five, a grandmother of 15, and a dedicated 
Postal Carrier for nearly thirty years. The naming of the Lincoln Post 
Office at which she worked is fitting for such a tremendous woman.
  On January 6, 2005, just one month before retiring from the U.S. 
Postal Service, longtime Lincoln, California resident Beverly Joyce 
Wilson, 65, was involved in a fatal car accident while on the job.
  The public sentiment after her death left one of her son's to remark, 
``How can one little old woman touch the lives of so many people?'' It 
is quite clear from the heartfelt comments from her relatives, friends, 
coworkers and residents of Lincoln that she truly has made a lasting 
impression on Lincoln.

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  But the circle of admiration didn't stop in Lincoln. According to 
Ralph Petty at the Sacramento Metropolitan Area U.S. Postal Service, 
``She was a model employee, very dedicated to her work. Her rural 
carrier job was her life. She loved the people that she serviced every 
day.''
  It is undeniable from all of the accounts, that she loved her life 
and valued and respected others, and in turn they have asked for the 
new Post Office to be dedicated in her memory. This Post Office naming 
bill represents all postal employees, and everything that the USPS 
stands for. Her legacy will forever be remembered.
  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. MARCHANT. Madam Speaker, I urge all Members to support the 
passage of H.R. 4720, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Marchant) that the House suspend the rules 
and pass the bill, H.R. 4720.
  The question was taken; and (two-thirds having voted in favor 
thereof) the rules were suspended and the bill was passed.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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