Roger Hubert McMillan - 1925-1989

MCMILLAN, PFISTER, GAVIN, SHEELEY, SEIBERT, SNOW

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 1/9/2011 at 19:20:40

Lifetime area resident Roger Hubert McMillan, age 64, of Waukon, Iowa died
Sunday, August 13, 1989 at Veterans Memorial Hospital, Waukon, Iowa. Funeral
services were held Wednesday August 16 at St.Patrick's Catholic Church. Father
Ed Lechtenberg and the Rev. Lynn Groe conducted the 11 a.m. services. Burial
was in Mt.Olivet Cemetery with Martin Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Casket bearers were Verle Palmer, Bill Votsmier, Jerry Berns, Roy Wandling,
Bud Johnson, and Lynn Morrow.

Roger was born February 22, 1925 in Rake, Iowa to Glenn and Esther (Pfister)
McMillan. He graduated from Waukon High School in 1943. He was in the army
from 1943 to 1946, serving in Normandy, northern France, Rhineland and central
Europe. On November 22, 1947 he married Mary Ellen Gavin at St.Patrick's
Church in Waukon, Iowa. He was the owner/operator of McMillan Oil Company for
16 years. He was employed as parts/service manager for Mark Mauss Chevrolet
for 17 years, and prior to that he was in partnership with his brother in
McMillan Bros. Auto Body for a number of years.

Roger had served on the Waukon City Council, Waukon Chamber of Commerce and
the advisory board for mechanics at Northeast Iowa Technical Institute in
Calmar, Iowa. He was a member of the VFW and American Legion. He enjoyed
fishing, cars, and stock car races.

Surviving are his wife, two daughters, Mrs. John (Cathy) Sheeley of Marion and
Mrs. Robert (Diane) Seibert of Tonawanda, New York; three sons, Dan, Pat, and
Mike McMillan, all of Waukon, Iowa; eight granddaughters, a brother, Curtis
McMillan of Bell Gardens, California and a sister, Mrs. Clifford (Eloise) Snow
of Roanoke, Virginia.

~WAUKON DEMOCRAT, Waukon, Allamakee co., Iowa, August 17, 1989
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