Miller, Leo J. 1894-1927

MILLER, TENTINGER

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Date: 5/17/2023 at 11:05:33

LeMars Globe-Post, June 16, 1927

BOY WHO SHIPPED AS SAILOR IS DEAD.
LEO MILLER, WHO VISITED EVERY SEAPORT IN THE WORLD DIED EASTER SUNDAY.

Mrs. Peter K. Miller of LeMars received a letter from Harold R. Brown, American vice-consul at Buenos Aires, Argentine, announcing the sad news of the death of her son, Leo, which occurred in Buenos Aires on Easter Sunday, April 17, 1927. The immediate cause of death was pneumonia.

Leo Miller was 32 years and 9 months old and had been a sailor since he was a boy. He enlisted at the age of 18 in the United States Navy, and after serving for a time on fighting ships, was transferred to trade ships. During the world war he shared in the exciting experiences with German submarines which served to keep the Navy busy in the absence of major engagements.

Once, on a cruise from New Orleans to England, the ship he was on was torpedoed by a German submarine. He and a number of others took to life rafts, where they remained until picked up by an English ship called to the scene by wireless. So sudden was the sinking that the ship’s crew had no time to save anything except their lives.

At the time he was taken sick, Mr. Miller had just signed up on a German ship, “Adolf Leonhardt.” And he was soon to leave Buenos Aires for Hamburg, Germany, but was prevented from going along by the attack of pneumonia which resulted in his death.

He leaves to mourn his loss his mother, Mrs. P. K. Miller; two brothers, Fred A., and Lincoln Miller; and one sister, Mrs. Laura Tentinger.
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LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, June 17, 1927

FOREIGN SHORE HOLD REMAINS.
VENTURESOME LE MARS YOUTH FINALLY FINDS HAVEN IN FAR DISTANT LAND.

Mrs. Peter K. Miller, residing at 307 Second Avenue SW, received a communication Monday evening from Harold R. Brown, American vice-consul at Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America, conveying the news of the death of her son, Leo J. Miller, at that place, April 17, 1927.

Leo J. Miller died in the British hospital in Buenos Aires, Easter Sunday following a brief illness of empyema and septic pneumonia.

His effects were turned over to the American consul and his remains buried in the British section of the Chacarita cemetery near Buenos Aires.

Leo J. Miller was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter K. Miller, of this city and was born in the house in which his mother still resides. He was 32 years and 9 months old at the time of his death. When a boy he had an ardent desire to become a sailor and left home when a lad, fifteen years and ago, and followed the sea until the end came from home in a foreign hospital.

He enlisted in the United States Navy when a boy and completed a term of enlistment. Subsequently he was employed on merchant and shipping craft. He had visited nearly every foreign port in the world during his voyages on trading vessels. During the World War he was on a ship loaded with mules from New Orleans for England, which was submarined by the Germans and he escaped without a shirt to his back and was picked up while floating on a grating in the Atlantic ocean by an English ship.

Papers found in his possession after his death in the Argentine hospital showed he received his discharge from the German ship “Adolph Leonhardt” at Buenos Aires, December 18, 1926.

Leo J. Miller attended the city schools in LeMars, and is remembered as a merry, pleasant brown-eyed lad with likable qualities.

He leaves to mourn his death, his mother, Mrs. P. K. Miller, two brothers, F. W. (sic F. K.) and Lincoln Miller, and a sister, Mrs. Jos. J. Tentinger, of this place.
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