Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 06:37:03 :
Novato Advance
Wednesday, March 1, 1978
JOHN P. MILANO
Funeral was held yesterday at the Redwood Chapel for John P. Milano who died Sunday at a local hospital following a long illness. Milano, 83, was the father of Novato Mayor David Milano.
He was a native of Osage City, Kansas, and worked as a telegrapher for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad until 1945 when he moved to Novato to work for Northwestern-Pacific Railroad in Ignacio.
He retired from the railroad in the late 1940s and then worked until 1959 in maintenance at Hamilton and Pacheco schools for the Novato school district.
Milano was a veteran of World War I and served with the Army’s American Expeditionary Forces in France in Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel and Euvezin with the Army of Occupation.
He was a member of the Lloyd A. Hamilton Post of the American Legion and was a retired member of the Laborers Union.
Besides Mayor Milano, he is survived by his wife, Estella Milano of Novato; two other sons, Michael Milano of Petaluma and John Milano of Woodland, Yolo County; four daughters, Bette Koepke of Greenbrae, Virginia Mae Bruce of Cotati, Barbara Ruth Seevers of Redding and Susan Phyllis Ossinger of Seattle; a sister, Emma Ferris of Roseville, and 24 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Burial was at Mount Tamalpais Cemetery. Memorial gifts to the Novato Boys Club are preferred by the family.
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