Blue Creek Post Office Facility Renaming

Ceremony being held in celebration of the renaming

COLUMBUS —  Postal Representatives and U.S. Congresswoman Jean Schmidt will be on hand March 22, 2008 at the Blue Creek Post Office for a renaming ceremony. Schmidt serves the 2nd Congressional District of Ohio.

The Blue Creek facility is being rededicated named as the George B. Lewis Post Office Building in honor of the former Postmaster. The Blue Creek ceremonies will take place at 12:00 p.m. at the office which is located at 20805 State Route 125, Blue Creek, OH  45616.

Bills renaming the Blue Creek and the Cherry Fork Post Offices were passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush on August 9, 2007. The Cherry Fork facility was renamed in honor of as the Staff Sergeant Omer O.T. Hawkins Post Office in honor of the Sergeant who lost his life while fighting in Iraq.

Lewis was named as the Blue Creek Postmaster on June 4, 1956 and he served in that position until his retirement on September 27, 1992.  Lewis retired with 40 years of federal government service.  He died on October 25, 2000 after battling cancer.  He is survived by his wife, Juanita, five children and six great-grandchildren.  Lewis was born in Peebles, Ohio and was a farmer.  He began his federal government service in 1946 when he enlisted in the Navy just months before his 18th birthday.  Following his discharge from the Navy, Lewis returned to Adams County to work ion the family cattle farm until September 1, 1950, when he was again called to duty and was drafted into the Army and sent to Korea at the age of 22.  Lewis was honorably discharged in 1952.