Union remembers Chicago postal worker fatally shot in Orland Park as a hard worker

A postal union president is remembering the 28-year-old woman fatally shot in Orland Park last week as a hard worker.

Elise Foster, president of Branch 11 of the National Association of Letter Carriers, said Mechellea Williams was good at her job as a letter carrier.

“She was a hard worker. She loved her job and her coworkers. She was an excellent carrier,” Foster said.

The union held a balloon release Saturday for Williams, who was a postal worker for eight months at the Fort Dearborn-Chestnut post office at 540 Dearborn St., in Chicago, Foster said.