Title	Mr.
Last Name	Pooler
First Name	Bernard
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Place of Birth	Dexter,ME
Date of Birth	1904-01-04
Place of Death	Colon,MI
Date of Death	1964-00-00
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Obituary	BERNARD POOLER Bernard Pooler, 59, a former Dexter resident,died suddenly Friday at Colon, Mich., of a heart ailment. He was born at Dexter, January 4, 1904, the son of Augustus and Sadie (Pooler) Pooler. Mr. Pooler, a member of the Michigan Press Association and the National Editorial Association, was editor-publisher of the Colon Express from 1955 until 1962 when he sold the paper to go into semi retirement. Since that time he had been associated with the Abbott Magic Co., working in the company's publication, department. He was born in Dexter, Me, on Jan. 4, 1904, a son of Augustus and Sadie (Poulin) Pooler. He received his basic education in the Dexter Schools and then attended , the Northwest School of Journalism, Chicago, where he prepared for newspaper publication. On June 10, 1835 he was joined in wedlock to Simone Landry, at Dexter, who encouraged his first venture into newspaper publishing when he founded the Bucksport Free Press, Bucksport, Me., in l940. He sewed as editor and publisher of that paper until 1852 when he sold the business and moved to Arizona for reasons of health. In 1955, he and his family moved to Colon where he purchased the Colon Express. He had been a member of several local service clubs until business pressures forced his resignations. Survivors are his widew, Mrs. Simone (Landry) Pooler, formerly of Dexter, now of Colon, Mich.; one son, John, of Michigan; one daughter, Margaret, of Michigan; one sister, Mrs. Geneva Dyer of Dexter; one brother, Francis Pooler of West Lebanon, N. H. A funeral Mass was said Monday at Colon. The Rosary was recited Wednesday at the Crosby Funeral Home at Dexter. Committal services were held at the family lot at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Dexter today (Thurs.) -0-