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May 4, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Sunday, May 8, 2011 from 2-4, 7-9 PM. Funeral services will be held Monday, May 9, 2011 at 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A Funeral Mass will be offered at 10:30 AM at Saint Mary’s RC Church, 15 Pompton Avenue, Pompton Lakes.
Daniel Milligan, age 88 passed away on May 4th, 2011. Dan was born on July 5, 1922 in Paterson, New Jersey. He grew up in Paterson on Clinton Street until joining the Civilian Conservation Corp at age 15. He spent his time in the CCC stationed in California where he worked as a lumberjack. Upon returning, he always worked at many entrepreneurial and interesting jobs, starting a successful trucking business with his brother. After 20 years he sold Milligan Trucking and continued his trucking career as an owner-operator hauling local freight and then as an over-the-road long distance trucker for another 20 years before retiring at age 59.
At age 19 he married Helen Baron who was then 17. They lived together with their three children in Fair Lawn before moving to North Haledon in 1955. Upon retirement, Dan and Helen moved to Toms River, where they lived until her death in 2000. Dan spent the past 10 years living in Green Acres, Florida. Throughout his life he was a devoted and loving husband and father and especially enjoyed time spent with his grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Surviving to cherish his memory are two sons, Daniel Milligan Jr. and his wife Dianne of Manahawkin and Robert Milligan and his wife Felice of Wayne; one daughter, Diane Kranich and her husband Robert of Manahawkin; one brother Michael Milligan and his wife Annamae of Lakewood; seven grandchildren and fifteen great grandchildren; his devoted and loving companion Rose Polakowski and her children and grandchildren.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Daniel’s memory are asked to consider Meridian Health Foundation Hospice, 1345 Campus Parkway, Suite A2, Neptune, NJ, 07753-9930.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Sunday, May 8, 2011 from 2-4, 7-9 PM. Funeral services will be held Monday, May 9, 2011 at 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A Funeral Mass will be offered at 10:30 AM at Saint Mary’s RC Church, 15 Pompton Avenue, Pompton Lakes.
May 4, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Sunday, May 8, 2011 from 2-4, 7-9 PM. Funeral services will be held Monday, May 9, 2011 at 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A Funeral Mass will be offered at 10:30 AM at Saint Mary’s RC Church, 15 Pompton Avenue, Pompton Lakes.
Daniel Milligan, age 88 passed away on May 4th, 2011. Dan was born on July 5, 1922 in Paterson, New Jersey. He grew up in Paterson on Clinton Street until joining the Civilian Conservation Corp at age 15. He spent his time in the CCC stationed in California where he worked as a lumberjack. Upon returning, he always worked at many entrepreneurial and interesting jobs, starting a successful trucking business with his brother. After 20 years he sold Milligan Trucking and continued his trucking career as an owner-operator hauling local freight and then as an over-the-road long distance trucker for another 20 years before retiring at age 59.
At age 19 he married Helen Baron who was then 17. They lived together with their three children in Fair Lawn before moving to North Haledon in 1955. Upon retirement, Dan and Helen moved to Toms River, where they lived until her death in 2000. Dan spent the past 10 years living in Green Acres, Florida. Throughout his life he was a devoted and loving husband and father and especially enjoyed time spent with his grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Surviving to cherish his memory are two sons, Daniel Milligan Jr. and his wife Dianne of Manahawkin and Robert Milligan and his wife Felice of Wayne; one daughter, Diane Kranich and her husband Robert of Manahawkin; one brother Michael Milligan and his wife Annamae of Lakewood; seven grandchildren and fifteen great grandchildren; his devoted and loving companion Rose Polakowski and her children and grandchildren.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Daniel’s memory are asked to consider Meridian Health Foundation Hospice, 1345 Campus Parkway, Suite A2, Neptune, NJ, 07753-9930.
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