MILLER, Evelyn Celeste 1999-2005
MILLER, CHRISTIE
Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/28/2009 at 12:13:02
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Evelyn Celeste Miller
CHARLES CITY, IOWA — Memorial services for Evelyn Celeste Miller, 5, of 1781 Quarry Road, Apt. 4, rural Charles City, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Congregational Church, 502 N. Jackson St. in Charles City, with the Rev. Phil Corr officiating.
The family will greet relatives and friends from 2 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Congregational Church, 502 N. Jackson St. in Charles City.
Those wishing to extend memorials or expressions of sympathy may direct them to the Evelyn C. Miller Memorial Fund, First Security Bank and Trust, 809 Clark St., Charles City, IA 50616
Thoughts, condolences and stories may be e-mailed to the family on the www.fullertonfh.com Web site.
Fullerton Hage Funeral Home, 401 Blunt St. in Charles City, is in charge of arrangements. Fullerton Hage Funeral Home and Cremation Services, (641) 228-4211. www.fullertonfh.com
[Globe Gazette]
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#2:Evelyn Celeste Miller
CHARLES CITY — Memorial services for Evelyn Celeste Miller, 5, of 1781 Quarry Road, Apt. No. 4, in Charles City, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Congregational Church, 502 N. Jackson St. in Charles City with the Rev. Phil Corr officiating.
The family will greet relatives and friends from 2 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Congregational Church at the address above.
Those wishing to extend memorials or expressions of sympathy may direct them to the Evelyn C. Miller Memorial Fund, 1st Security Bank and Trust, 809 Clark St., Charles City, IA 50616.
Thoughts, condolences and stories may be e-mailed to the family on the www.fullertonfh.com Web site.
Andrew J. Christie and Noel L. Miller welcomed their beautiful daughter, Evelyn Celeste Miller into the world at the Floyd County Memorial Hospital in Charles City on Aug. 22, 1999. She immediately stole their hearts and continued to delight them, as their only daughter, throughout the following five years.
"Evey," as she was lovingly nicknamed by her family and close friends, was a little girl who could "melt your heart" with her infectious smiles and giggles.
She was a very intelligent kindergarten student at Washington Elementary School in Charles City and was excited to reveal to all that she would be entering first grade in the fall.
Evelyn often professed that she was especially fond of reading and recess at school and playing with her friends.
Evelyn was a "sugar and spice" kind of girl! She loved playing with her Barbie dolls, My Little Pony and Disney Princesses. Evelyn treasured her fun time while pretending in her "dress up" clothes, dancing ("shaking her booty") to the tunes of "Funky Town" or "Shake, Shake, Shake," going swimming, riding her bike and collecting Polly Pocket dolls and Care Bears. Her favorite color was blue and her favorite book, that she read over and over, was "If You Give A Pig a Pancake."
Evelyn's parents say that their daughter had a creative mind and spirited nature. She exhibited many pieces of her handwork in paintings, drawings and clay. Evelyn often challenged her family and friends to a good game of "Candyland" and "Pretty, Pretty Princess."
She was a great Mother's helper in assisting with folding clothes and entertaining her three little brothers. When having the opportunity to purchase a special treat at the store, Evelyn would most likely choose gummi bears, a candy necklace, baby bottle pops, a ring pop or licorice, professing, "she didn't much like chocolate!"
Evelyn's Dad revealed that he will always have wonderful memories of time spent with his daughter at his home as they together, cooked snacks and meals and spent time just fixing things around the garage. To further enhance Evelyn's blooming interests, he attached a ballet bar in her bedroom so that Evey could dress in her leotards and practice being a ballerina.
Evelyn will forever be cherished and sadly missed by her family and friends who shared in her short but full life.
She is survived by her parents, Andrew "Andy" and Lindsey Christie, of Waterloo and Noel Miller and her fiance Casey Frederiksen of Charles City; her three younger brothers, Gabriel and Damian Frederiksen of Charles City and Wesley Christie of Waterloo; her grandparents, Diane Miller of Charles City; Richard and Linda Christie of Des Moines; David and Janice Weston of Nashua; Dennis King of Charles City and Mark and Sandy Kuykendall of Floyd; her great-grandparents, Ada Day of Eureka, Calif.; James and Betty Wright, of Knoxville, Tenn.; Donald and Rosie Carnagey of Collinsville, Okla.; and Edna King of Marble Rock.
Evelyn will also be greatly missed by her great-great-grandparents, Violet Woodall of Janesville, and Ophelia Watts of Bartlesville, Okla.; her aunts and uncles and cousins, Alithya Runyan, Destiny, Boe and Luke, Irene Miller, Mark Miller, Dawn Miller, Autumn Miller, Steven Christie, Tina (Jeff) Spears and Marley Jane, Jeremiah Christie, Shane (Desiree') Carnagey, Zachary Weston, Niki (Lewis) Litzel and Alena and Brandi (Joe) Hoffman and numerous other relatives and friends.
Preceding Evelyn in death is her grandfather, Terry Miller.
Fullerton Hage Funeral Home and Cremation Services, (641) 228-4211. www.fullertonfh.com .
[Globe Gazette]
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#3:[CNN July 22, 2009]
Police are confident they'll find girl's killer
Evelyn Miller, 5, was found floating in the Cedar River a mile from her home in July 2005.On a July morning in 2005, Noel Miller came home from working the night shift at an Iowa nursing home. She told police she arrived around 6:20 a.m. and discovered that her 5-year-old daughter, Evelyn, was missing.
Everyone else was fast asleep.
Some 1,500 volunteers joined the six-day search for Evelyn Miller, but it ended tragically. The little girl was found floating in the Cedar River near rural Floyd, Iowa.
That was four years ago, and police still have not charged anyone in Evelyn's death.
At the time she disappeared, Evelyn was living in an apartment complex with her mother, two half-brothers and the man her mother planned to marry, Casey Frederiksen. Two friends were visiting him. They had spent the night, which was not unusual.
Noel Miller looked for her daughter, then called 911. The call launched a massive search for Evelyn, beginning at her apartment and extending outward for seven miles.
"That area was completely covered," Floyd County Sheriff Rick Lynch said. Police and volunteers hiked through cornfields and wooded areas. Authorities deployed infrared airplanes and sent dive teams into local rivers and quarries.
On the sixth evening of the search, two kayakers found Evelyn's body floating in a river just one mile from her home.
"It takes anywhere from three to five days if it's a drowning, then the body will come to the surface," Lynch said.
The Floyd County Sheriff's Office has not released what caused Evelyn's death. But Lynch said, "We believe she was a victim of foul play."
"This is definitely a homicide," said Floyd County Attorney Jesse Marzen. "We want to make sure that law enforcement investigates as completely and as thoroughly as possible."
Investigators have narrowed their suspect list to three people, Lynch said, but police are not ready to publicly name them.
"I'm sure the general public is not going to be surprised," Lynch said, adding, "I feel confident that we will make an arrest soon."
Since the little girl's death, the three men who were staying at the apartment have been in trouble with the law.
Miller's fiancé, Frederiksen, is serving a 14-year sentence for a child pornography conviction. He recently was named in an indictment accusing him of producing methamphetamine in the apartment where he lived with Evelyn before her murder.
Frederiksen's former attorney, Jane Kelly, said he has a new lawyer, who practices in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. That attorney, Dan O'Brien, did not return a call from CNN requesting comment.
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