Howard W Miller 1914-2003

MILLER, SIMMS, BOULDEN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/5/2008 at 00:48:40

Sioux City Journal
Wednesday, January 15, 2003

WHITING, Iowa -- Howard W. Miller, 88, of Whiting died Monday, Jan. 13, 2003, at Pleasant View Care Center in Whiting.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Rush Family Care Service in Onawa, Iowa, with the Rev. Chuck Layton officiating. Burial will be in Harrison Cemetery, Whiting. Visitation will be 5:30 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Howard was born March 4, 1914, in Moreland, Okla., the son of Earl W. and Dosha (Simms) Miller. In 1918, the Miller family moved to Agricola, Kan., to farm. He attended grade school in Agricola and later graduated from Williamsburg (Kan.) High School. Following graduation, he farmed with his father for several years. Discouraged by drought and failed crops, he moved to Aurora, Ill., to work as a hired hand.
While in Illinois he met Edna Lucille Boulden. They were married Dec. 28, 1939, at the Onawa residence of Edna's parents, Vasco and Matilda Boulden. They made their home on the Boulden farm, nine miles northwest of Onawa. He farmed from 1941 until 1975, when his poor health forced him into early retirement from farming and he moved to Whiting. Mrs. Miller passed away Oct. 14, 1993.

He was a member of Weston Lodge 562 A.F. & A.M. in Whiting. He was a former member of the Whiting Co-op Elevator and was a Lincoln Township trustee. He also was a member of Onawa United Methodist Church.

Survivors include a son, Wesley C. Miller of Onawa; a daughter and her husband, Elaine M. and William C. Mausbach of Papillon, Neb.; four granddaughters, Shari and her husband, Randy Dunklau of Wayne, Neb., Michelle and her husband, Mark Powell of Atkinson, Neb., Colleen Whiles of Omaha, and Traci Miller of Onawa; a grandson, Trevor Miller of Moorhead, Iowa; a brother and his wife, Harold and Berniece Miller of Hot Springs Village, Ark.; and 18 great-grandchildren.

In addition to his wife, Edna, he was preceded in death by his parents and a granddaughter, Laura Jean Miller.