Milton Joseph "Joe" Foley was the son of Jeremiah S. Foley Jr. and Maria V. Scanlon. His parents were both born in Juneau County, Wisconsin. Jeremiah worked for a lumber company, so the family moved from Wisconsin to Minnesota to Louisiana, where Joe was born, and finally to Florida. Joe married Kathryn D. Robuck of Florida in 1935, they had two children. He also worked in the lumber business, as did several extended members of the Scanlon family. Powell River Company, of which he was president, was started by his uncle M. J. Scanlon.

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FOLEY, MILTON JOSEPH, 91, of Belleair, died Friday (March 9, 2001) at Morton Plant Hospital, Clearwater. He was born in Kentwood, La., and came here in 1998 from Naples, Fla. He worked in the forest products industry and was a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Kathryn; a daughter, Kathryn Schurz, Bloomington, Ind.; a son, Michael, Largo; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. The Beachwood Society, Naples.

HERALD-TIMES, BLOOMINGTON, IND. -- Milton Joseph "Joe" Foley, one of the last surviving members of one teams coached by legendary Knute Rockne at Notre Dame University, and a former forest products company executive, died March 9 in Clearwater, Fla. Survivors include Kathryn Schurz, wife of Scott Schurz, Herald-Times Editor-and-Chief and publisher; a wife of 65 years, Kathryn; a son, Michael; and six grand children and six great grandchildren. He was a former president of Powell River Company Ltd. in Vancouver, B.C., then the largest newsprint producer in the world. After a merger with Macmillan Blondel Ltd., he was president of the combined company.