MILLER, Lona Belle 1882 - 1965

MILLER, COLEMAN, BYERS, BELL, UNGAR, CLARRIDGE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 3/26/2006 at 15:36:24

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Thursday, May 13, 1965
Page 8, Column 1

Mrs. Lona Belle MILLER, 82, 500 S. Sixth, died 10:20 p.m. Wed. at Jefferson County Hospital. Raymond Funeral Home. Burial will be in Fell Cemetery near Libertyville.

Born Sept. 7, 1882, at Libertyville, daughter of John H. and Sarah COLEMAN BYERS; reared and educated in Libertyville; Sept. 21, 1904, married Charles H. MILLER in Libertyville. He died Mar. 3, 1930. Also deceased are one son, four brothers and one sister. Member First Presbyterian Church.

Survived by one son, Lester MILLER of Fairfield, and two daughters, Mrs. Edith BELL of Council Bluffs and Mrs. Dorothy UNGER of Denver, Colo., and 6 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s).

Note: Husband Charles Harvey MILLER was born Charles Harvey CLARRIDGE, the son of Nathan and Sarah MILLER CLARRIDGE. At some point after the deaths of his parents in 1898 and 1896 he started using MILLER for a surname, and married Lona as Charles H. MILLER; he would use MILLER until his death. In following Charles through the censuses, his son noted above as Lester is actually Charles Lester. By the 1925 census Charles is living in Wayne County, IA, with his younger brother Winfred (who has always lived with Charles), who is also using MILLER as a surname.