MILHOUS, Max C. 1920- 2000

MILHOUS, BURRHUS, HELM, ZIRBEL, OMASTA, BAYSE, HENNING, WOODS, SHEEL, SANKOT

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 1/26/2014 at 23:57:29

MAX C. MILHOUS

VENTURA - Max C. Milhous, 80, of 106 East Lake St., Ventura, died Saturday (Nov. 25, 2000) at the Oakwood Care Center, Clear Lake.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City, with the Rev. Jana Swenson officiating.

Visitation will be held from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 North Fourth St., Clear Lake.

Max was born on March 17, 1920, in rural Garner, to Lewis and Beulah (Burrhus) Milhous. The family moved to Ventura when Max was a small child, and he had lived there ever since. He graduated from Ventura High School in 1937. Max served in the United States Army during World War II with the 43rd Engineer Construction Battalion in the Pacific Theater. He was baptized and confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church in Clear Lake.

On Aug. 26, 1946, Max married Lucille Helm at Zion Lutheran Church. He was employed by Northern Natural Gas Company (now Enron) as an engine technician. He retired in 1982 after 37 years of service. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign War in Clear Lake and the Ventura Gun Club. He loved fishing, hunting, trap shooting, playing cards and bingo, and watching sports on television - particularly the Chicago Cubs.

Max is survived by his wife of 54 years, Lucille, of Ventura; his daughter, Teri Zirbel and her husband, Charlie, of Clear Lake; two grandchildren, Christina Omasta and her husband, Ken, of Bountiful, Utah, and Jeremy Bayse of Tulsa, Okla.; three great-grandchildren, Michael Omasta, Lauren Omasta, and Amber Omasta of Bountiful, Utah; two sisters, Rachel Henning, of St. Joseph, Mich., and Betty Woods, of Green Valley, Ariz.; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, sisters, Audre Sheel and Peggy Sankot, and brother, Wayne Milhous.