[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 142 (Tuesday, September 9, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1734]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             HONORING THE MEMORY OF CHARLES JOSEPH POLLMAN

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                             HON. JO BONNER

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, September 9, 2008

  Mr. BONNER. Madam Speaker, the city of Mobile and the State of 
Alabama recently lost a dear friend, and I rise today to honor Charles 
Joseph Pollman and pay tribute to his memory.
  A lifelong resident of Mobile, Charles graduated from McGill 
Institute and Spring Hill College. He served in the U.S. Army Air 
Corps, Second Air Division, in Norwich, England, during World War II.
  After his service in the war, he used his veteran benefits to attend 
the Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis, MN, where he studied baking. He 
followed in the footsteps of his father, Fred Pollman Sr., and became 
owner and operator of his parents' bakery, Pollman's Bake Shop. He 
started working in the family bakery when he was just 12 years old, and 
at the age of 88, he was still going to the bakery several days a week.
  Three generations of the Pollman family have been baking in Mobile 
since 1918, and his passing is a tremendous loss to the city. Every 
Mobilian cherishes Pollman brownies, and many a schoolchild in Mobile 
County has carried a Pollman po'boy in their lunch box. From ham 
biscuits to king cakes--Pollman's is the place to go downtown or in 
west Mobile. It is not an overstatement to say that thousands of 
wedding cakes have had the Pollman touch.
  Charles Pollman also devoted much of his time to his community. He 
was a member of St. Pius X Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus 
Council No. 666.
  Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in remembering a 
dedicated community leader, a friend to many throughout southwest 
Alabama, as well as a wonderful husband and devoted father. Charles 
Pollman will be dearly missed by his family--his wife, Beverly Pollman; 
their six children, Chase J. Pollman, Mary Corinne Pollman, Thomas L. 
Pollman, Leannah P. Duncan, Frederick J. Pollman, III, and Page H. 
Pollman; his sister, Mary Pollman Bender; his seven grandchildren, 
Zachary J. Pollman, Fred J. Pollman, IV, Michelle C. Pollman, Charles 
B. Duncan, Adrienne D. Duncan, Blake H. Pollman, and T. Bender 
Pollman--as well as the many countless friends he leaves behind. Our 
thoughts and prayers are with them all during this difficult time.

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