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The Janesville Gazette

August 1969

Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin

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MILTON - W[alter] Guy POLAN, 89, formerly of 345 E. Madison St., died
yesterday at Caravilla where he had been a patient for the past year.
Mr. POLAN came to Milton in 1920 and joined the faculty of Milton Union High
School where he taught science and coached athletics. He later joined Burdick Corporation and held a position there until his retirement in 1949.
Born Nov. 29, 1879, in Dodder County, W. Va., he later moved to Jackson Center,
Ohio, where he was a teacher 12 years and served a term as district superintendent. He was married there to Norma JONES Aug. 16, 1911. He was a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church.
Surviving are three sons, Neil of Janesville, Roger and Russell, both of Santa Barbara,
Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. Charles WHITFORD and Mrs. Herbert CROUCH, both of Milton, and Mrs. A. P. LOOMER, Green Bay; 24 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Roy POTTER, Fort Meyers, Fla., and a brother Herbert POLAN, Livonia, Mich.
Mrs. POLAN died in late 1963 and a son, Robert, twin brother of Roger, died in
1945 in France while serving in world War II.
Services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the church with burial in Milton Cemetery.
Friends may call from 7 to 9 tonight at the Albrecht Funeral Home. [Monday edition]
 
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