Sun Prairie firefighter's widow says post office named for him is amazing

  • Source: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau
  • Published: 11/01/2019 08:23 PM

A building in Sun Prairie will soon bear the name of the city's fallen hero. President Donald Trump signed a bill Thursday to name the post office in honor of fire Capt. Cory Barr. "I'm kind of an ink dry kind of person so until Trump actually put his signature on it and you know I didn't wanna get my hopes up," says Abby Barr, Cory's widow. She learned the president had signed legislation re naming the post office in honor of her husband Cory, who died last year responding to a deadly natural gas explosion in Sun Prairie. "To have a federal building named in Cory's honor is it's just amazing and I don't think people fully grasp and understand how much of a true honor that is. It'll have a whole new meaning when I do go there." The idea for the name change was born just weeks after the explosion from Wisconsin's US Senators and Rep. Mark Pocan.



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