Obituary: Mary McComber, mayor of Oak Park Heights, ’embodied a belief that service matters’

Obituary: Mary McComber, mayor of Oak Park Heights, ’embodied a belief that service matters’

Mary McComber’s first foray into politics was in the mid-1990s when the Minnesota Department of Transportation began buying and razing homes in Lower Oak Park Heights to build a new St. Croix River bridge. “She loved her city,” said her daughter Laura Brown. “She wanted better, especially when all that stuff was happening with the bridge originally. They started demolishing houses, and my mom was, like, ‘You’re not going to keep going with the r…