Joseph Eugene Miller (2016)

BAKER-BROWN, HENRY, HRIBAL, KENEALY, LAYTON, MIKKELSEN, MILLER, MULLIN, NELSON, RUGG, TREANOR

Posted By: Shirley Keating
Date: 3/15/2016 at 22:05:28

Powers Funeral Home
Creston, Iowa
March 2016

J. Eugene "Gene" Miller, 88, of Creston, died March 15, 2016, at Creston Specialty Care in Creston.

Celebration of Life Services will be 10 a.m., Friday, March 18, 2016, at the Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Creston. Father Ken Halbur and Father Leonard Kenkel will officiate.

Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery, west of Creston.

Open visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 17, with family receiving friends 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday and a Rosary at 7:30 p.m., at the Powers Funeral Home junction of highway 34 & 25 in Creston.

Memorials may be directed to the Holy Spirit Parish or to St. Malachy School. Online condolences can be given at www.powersfh.com .

Joseph Eugene Miller was born March 11, 1928, in rural Corning, Ia. to Francis James Miller and Helen Elizabeth (Treanor) Miller. He moved to Creston in 1941 and graduated from Creston High School in 1946.

On November 26, 1949, Gene married Shirley Ann Mullin in Creston. They moved to Cheyenne, Wyo. briefly and then to Council Bluffs for a year. They lived for a time in Eldora and New Providence, then to Creston for 10 years. They moved northeast of Creston where they lived for the next 30 years. Gene worked for Carl Henry in Winterset for 4 years and also for Union County for 7 years, running a maintainer. Shirley died in1982.

On May 26, 1984 Gene married Jean (Mikkelsen) at the United Methodist Church in Orient. They lived and worked in the Creston area all their married life.

Gene was a member of the Holy Spirt Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus, Creston Elks Lodge #605, Creston Saddle Club and was a former member of the Creston Eagles Lodge #1398.

Survivors include his wife, Jean Miller of Creston; four sons, Pat (wife Susan) Miller of Creston, Edward (wife Gwen) Miller of Liberty, Mo., Dan (wife Denise) Miller of Creston and Matt (wife Susan) Miller of Des Moines; four daughters, Kathy Hribal of Creston, Rosemary (husband Kevin) Henry of Creston, Bridget (husband Marc) Clayton of Ames and Diane (husband Lantz) Rugg of Jefferson; one step-daughter, June (husband Ben) Nelson of Titusville, Fla.; three step-sons, Michael Mikkelsen of Kansas City, Mo., Jeffrey (wife Becky) Mikkelsen of Marion, Ia. and Reginald (wife Rita) Mikkelsen of Creston, Ia.; a step-daughter-in-law, Genese Mikkelsen; 22 grandchildren; and 51 great-grandchildren, 12 step-grandchildren; 11 step-great-grandchildren and one sister Patricia (husband Phil) Kenealy of Liberty, Mo.

Gene was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, Shirley, two sons, Brendan in 1995 and Jerry Miller in 2008; a step-grandson, C.J. Miller in 2006; a great-grandson Dalton Hribal in 2012; two sisters, Catharine Baker-Brown and Teresa Miller aka Sister Mary Rosarita and two brothers, Gerald and James Miller.

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