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- Funeral services for Mrs. Herbert POLAN,
Verona, N.Y., wife of the Rev. Herbert
- POLAN,
were held Wednesday, March 23, at 2:30 p.m. at the Milton Seventh
Day Baptist church. The Rev. Kenneth Van Horn, assisted by
the Rev. E. F. Randolph officiated and burial was in Milton cemetery.
- Mrs. POLAN was born in Vivian,
Minn., Oct. 2, 1885, and moved to Milton with her
- parents, the late J. L. and Katherine
BURDICK SHAW, when a small child. She attended the Milton
schools and Milton college and taught school in the vicinity
of Milton before her marriage to Herbert L. POLAN. After
her marriage, she and her husband taught school in Iron River
and Albion. The couple then moved to Alfred, N.Y. where Mr.
POLAN attended the Alfred Theological seminary. Since
then, Mrs. POLAN has aided her husband in his pastorates
at West Edmeston, N.Y., Hartsville, N.Y., New Market, N.J., Nortonville,
Kan., North Loup, Neb., Brookfield., N.Y., and Columbus Quarters
Baptist in N.Y.
- They went to the Verona Seventh Day
Baptist church Dec. 1, 1941, and served this
- church the Syracuse Seventh Day Baptist
church, and the Bartlett Baptist church. Mrs. POLAN
was active in the societies of both churches up until the time
of her illness. She became seriously ill on New Years eve of
this year and died March 19 in a convalescent home in Rome, N.Y.,
at the age of 63. Services were held in Verona Monday afternoon.
- Surviving Mrs. POLAN are her
husband, Herbert, who is a brother of Guy POLAN;
- three daughters: Muriel, Mrs. Philip
BABER, Keesville, N.Y.; Frances, Mrs. David CLARKE,
Westerly, R.I.; and Lura, Mrs. William TURCK, Berkley,
Mich.; three grandchildren and two stepchildren; two brothers:
Dr. Edwin Ben SHAW, Milton and the Rev. George B. SHAW,
Alfred, N.Y.; and many nephews and nieces, cousins and other
relatives.
- Lt. (j.g.) Dighton L. POLAN
preceded his mother in death when he was killed in
- action in the Pacific during World
War II.
- Pallbearers were Byron ROOD,
Norton LOWTHER, W. E. ROGERS, D. N.
- INGLIS,
L. A. KRAMER, Fulton, and L. H. STRINGER. [Thursday
edition, p. 2]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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