Eleanor (Stricker) MILLER BIXLER

STRICKER, MILLER, BIXLER, JONES

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:54

Eleanor Stricker Miller Bixler
22 September 1919 ---- 20 September 2005

MASON CITY - Eleanor (Stricker) Miller Bixler, 85, of Mason City died Tuesday (Sept. 20, 2005) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 419 N. Delaware Ave., with the Rev. Mark Lavrenz officiating. Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Eleanor was born on Sept. 22, 1919, in Lincoln, Neb., to Gottfried and Margaret Stricker. She was baptized in Lincoln, Neb., and confirmed in Algona, Iowa. Eleanor attended school at McKinley School in Mason City and she also attended schools in Algona and Irvington, Iowa. On Jan. 9, 1938, she was united in marriage to Henry Miller at Trinity Lutheran Church in Algona. They raised their family of four in Sioux City and Perry, Iowa. A few years following the death of her first husband, Eleanor was married to Larry Bixler of Dows. Following his death, she moved to Mason City.

Eleanor is survived by her sons, Gary Miller and wife, Betty, of Mora, Minn., Tony Miller and wife, Kathy, of Mason City, Mike Miller of Mason City, one daughter, Suzanne Jones and husband, Charles, of Forest City, and one brother, Robert Stricker of Mason City. She is also survived by 10 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.