A
post office in Suffern will soon be renamed after a three-time Purple
Heart recipient and a longtime veterans advocate in Rockland.
The U.S. Senate
approved the name change for the post office at 15 Chestnut St. to be renamed after Sgt. Gerald Donnellan.
Rep.
Mondaire Jones introduced the
legislation last year, and they approved it in September.
Donnellan served in Vietnam.
He also was the head of the county's Veterans Service Agency, where he started a veterans health clinic and raised awareness about the
problems associated with post-traumatic stress disorder.