MILLER, Martin (died 1941)

MILLER, ADAMS

Posted By: Michael J. Petrie (email)
Date: 3/23/2009 at 09:25:40

Watertown Daily Times
Thurs. Oct. 2, 1941
p. 1, c. 8

Early Morning Crash 3 Miles North of City

Watertown Boy is Among Victims of Double Car Accident

Three young men, one of them from Watertown, are dead and a fourth is in St. Mary’s hospital as the result of an automobile collision on highway 109, three miles north of Watertown at 2 o’clock this morning. The dead are Martin Miller, 16, of S. 5th St., this city; Leonard Luebke, 21, of rt. 2, town of Lebanon; Russell A. Buege, 20, of rt. 2, Watertown. The injured youth is Jerome Renz, 16, of 107 Milwaukee street....

Martin Miller was born in Stacyville, Iowa, and was 16 years of age. He had lived in Watertown the past 12 years and is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey J. Miller, 804 S. 5th St. He attended St. Henry’s school and was in his third year at high school.

Besides his parents he is survived by three sisters and one brother. They are Mrs. Richard Fernholz, Agnes Miller and Margaret Miller, this city, and Peter Miller, now stationed at Camp Livingston, La.

He was a member of St. Henry’s Catholic church and of the Holy Name society of that parish.

The funeral will be held from the Boyle funeral home Saturday morning at 9 o’clock with services in St. Henry’s church. The Very Rev. Dean F.X. Schwinn will officiate and burial will be in the parish cemetery.

Friends may call at the Boyle funeral home to pay their respects beginning Friday at 1 p.m.