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Longtime Gainesville business owner, Nathan Burgen, remembered for hard work and generosity
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Nathan L. Burgen passed away Wednesday at the age of 90.
Nathan Louis Burgen, longtime Gainesville business owner and entrepreneur died Wednesday at the age of 90. Burgen, a resident of Cornelia, was most known for his chain of clothing stores in Georgia and South Carolina, including Milner’s and Burton’s of Gainesville and Gold’s of Cornelia. Born in Eufaula, Alabama, on Oct. 10, 1926, the youngest of five children, he lived in Alabama until he was drafted into the U.S Army during World War II and was sent to the Philippines.