Lindsey Anne McMillan 1987-2008

MCGEOUGH, MCMILLAN

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 5/31/2008 at 19:10:21

Lindsey Anne McMillan

Lindsey A. McMillan, 20, of Waukon died Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at University Health System in San Antonio, TX from injuries received in an automobile accident near San Antonio. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, March 26 at 11 a.m. at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Waukon, with Fr. Joseph Schneider and Rev. Msgr. Ed Lechtenberg officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Waukon. Friends may call from 3 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Martin Funeral Home in Waukon, where there will be a 3 p.m. scripture service.

Lindsey Anne McMillan was born November 4, 1987 in La Crosse, WI, the daughter of Michael Dennis and Susan Kay (McGeough) McMillan. She was baptized and confirmed at St. Patrick Catholic Church and attended St. Patrick Catholic School in Waukon. In 2006 she graduated from Waukon High School, where she was a member of the National Honor Society, Student Council, Dollars for Scholars and Students Against Drunk Driving. She was also a football cheerleader and chosen for Homecoming Queen. Lindsey was currently a sophomore at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where she was enrolled in the College of Nursing and volunteered at the University of Iowa Hospital. She worked at Elliott Jewelers in Waukon since the age of 14.

As an active member of St. Patrick Catholic Church, Lindsey served as a Eucharistic Minister, Lector and CCD Teacher. She enjoyed spending time with her family and friends, water skiing, tubing, reading, riding bicycle, walking and playing the piano. She also enjoyed taking trips throughout the United States and abroad.

Survivors include her parents, Mike and Sue McMillan; a brother, Matt McMillan; a sister, Chelsea McMillan; and her grandmother, Mary Ellen McMillan, all of Waukon; several aunts, uncles and cousins; and a special friend, Garrett Kurth of Waukon. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Roger McMillan and Keith and Rose McGeough; and an uncle, Danny McMillan.

Honorary casketbearers are John and Dick Elliott, John Sheeley and Ray Garin. Casketbearers are Adrian and Mike McGeough, Pat McMillan, Pat Wilson, Bob Seibert and Don LaKose.
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Single Vehicle Accident In Texas Claims Life Of Waukon College Student

A single vehicle accident at approximately 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 17 near San Antonio, TX claimed the life of 20-year old Lindsey Anne McMillan, daughter of Mike and Sue McMillan of Waukon. McMillan was one of three backseat passengers thrown from a sport utility vehicle traveling south on Interstate 37, about 65 miles south of San Antonio, when the rear tire on the passenger side of the vehicle went flat, sending the vehicle rolling into the grass median.

According to information reported to McMillan's family by authorities and eye witnesses, the tire failure resulted in the vehicle swerving back and forth on the pavement when it appeared the rim of the wheel finally caught the pavement and sent the vehicle rolling one and one-half times, ejecting McMillan and two other passengers seated next to her, all of whom were not wearing their seat belts at the time of the incident.

McMillan was airlifted from the scene to University Health System in San Antonio, TX, where she was immediately placed on life support but eventually died with her family by her side Tuesday, March 18 from the massive head trauma she suffered in the accident. Another of the thrown passengers, a male, was also airlifted and remains a patient at University Hospital with head trauma. The other ejected passenger, a female, walked away from the accident with no serious injuries, as did the driver and a front seat passenger.

McMillan was a sophomore nursing student at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. She and a group of friends, including her partner in a laboratory class at Iowa and some of that lab partner's friends from the Knoxville area, were traveling to South Padre Island for a spring break vacation when the accident occurred. Authorities report that alcohol was not involved in the incident.

The family relays that a positive impact has emerged from McMillan's death via her wishes to be an organ donor. Her heart was given to a 52-year old man in dire need of a transplant and one of her kidneys was transplanted into a 13-year old boy. Her family says her other kidney, as well as her liver and pancreas were also donated, but as of this printing had not been placed with any recipients.

McMillan was a 2006 graduate of Waukon High School. Funeral services will take place at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 26 at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Waukon. Her obituary appears on Page 3A of this week's issue of The Standard.

The Waukon Standard, Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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