Miles Willard, 80, Developed Dried Spuds
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Miles Willard, the inventor of dehydrated potato flakes, died Friday in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was 80 and had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for several years.
Willard came to Idaho Falls in 1955 to work for Rogers Bros. Co., which was interested in the dehydrated potato flakes he had first developed in a U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory.
He went on to start his own company, Miles Willard Technologies, developing patents for snack foods made from dehydrated potatoes including Hula Hoops, popular in Britain, and O’Boises and Tato Skins in the United States.
He was inducted into the Potato Hall of Fame in 1998.
