Miller, Vern Charles (1926-1950)

WEILAND - PETERSEN - MILLER

Posted By: Deborah (email)
Date: 11/12/2004 at 19:50:12

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, IA 17 July, 1950

Verne Miller Dies Suddenly At Hospital

Verne Charles Miller, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Miller of near this city, died suddenly at 8 p.m. yesterday at Mercy hospital in Des Moines after suffering a brain hemorrhage while visiting with relatives at Clarion.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Foster funeral home with Rev. L.F. Church of Aredale, Iowa, officiating.

Burial will be made in the Memorial Park Cemetery at Ft. Dodge.

Visiting in Clarion -- A veteran of WWII, Mr. Miller was visiting Sunday noon at the home of his sister, Mrs. Carl Elkin, at Clarion, where he was taken sick. He was teken by ambulance to Des Moines where an operation was planned, but he died before the operation could be carried out. He had undergone a serious brain operation two years ago, but it was believed he had recovered from that.

Verne Charles Miller was born April 13, 1926, on a farm in Blairsburg township. He had lived for many years on a farm in Fremont township. A graduate of Lincoln high school in 1943, he attended junior college for one year and also atttended Iowa State college. He entered the navy in 1944, serving in the Okinawa war zone, and was discharged in 1946. He had been assisting his father in farming since that time. Besides his parents, he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Carl (Ruth) Elkin of Clarion and Mrs. Grant (Maxine) Anderson of Webster City; by a brother, Lyle Miller of this city; by his grandmother, Mrs. J.W. Petersen of Webster City, and by his fiancee, Miss Jane Anne Samuelson, of Fort Dodge, and by two nephews and a niece.

Mr. Miller was always active in the Evangelical United Brethren church and held several positions with the church and Sunday school. A friendly, generous young man, he was always popular with the young people of his group and leaves many friends who will miss him nearly as greatly as the immediate family.