Newspaper Clipping - Newspaper Clipping Scan - Eagan's first mayor dies - 6/23/1981
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Vol. 2, No. 25
TWO SECTIONS June 23, 1981
Eagan s
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first
mayor
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dies
Herbert Polzin, Eagan's first
mayor, died June 12 at the age of.
75 at Divine Redeemer Hospital in
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South St. Paul. 1
Funeral services were held June
15 at Emmanuel Evangelical
Lutheran Church in St. Paul c
Interment was at Acacia Park
Cemetery in Mendota Heights.y
He is survived by his wife
Agnes; son and daughter-in-law
Herbert and Carol of Dundee, Il.;
grandchildren Matthew and
Lindsay; and sisters Esther Rahn
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and Florence Polzin of Mendota
Heights.
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Polzin's parents were German
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immigrants who moved to a farm
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in Eagan in 1901. Polzin was born
on the farm in 1906 and continued
to live there all his life. He
operated the 100-acre dairy harm
until 1974, when he retired. He
also worked part-time for the U.S.
Postal Service. ~
Polzin contributed a lifetime of
public service to Eagan. At the age
of 21 he was an election judge. In
1944 he took over the task of Herb Polzin
township treasurer at a salary of
$100 a year. He served as treasurer
until 1972. He was also moderator village. Polzin was elected in The city cot ncil voted June 16
of the annual township meetings Eagan's first mayoral contest in to dedicate tht city's history book
from 1945 to 1964. November, 1972. He served as to Polzin, who served on the
It was Polzin who first brought mayor through December, 1977. history comm, ttee.
to the attention of the township Polzin has received citations for A memorial fund for Polzin has
clerk and supervisors the need'for community service from the City been set up at Mid-America
community planning back in the of Eagan, Dakota County, the National Banl. City Administrator
mid-1950's. The supervisors Dakota County Development Tom Hedges i ; treasurer of the
followed his advice and established Association, the Northern Dakota account. Checks should be made
a planning commission in March County Chamber of Commerce payable to the Herbert Polzin
of 1956. Polzin served on the and the Minnesota Mayor's Memorial Fur d and sent to Hedges
commission for 16 years and was Association. He also was given the at City Hall. ''he Polzin family
chairman from 1968 to 1972. Order of Knighthood by King will decide lat !r to which charity
Eagan's township days ended in Boreas Rex of the St. Paul Winter the money wil be donated.
1972 when the city became a Carnival.