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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Willard Levi Miller ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Miller, Willard Levi
LAST NAME: Miller FIRST NAME: Willard MIDDLE NAME: Levi NICKNAME: Uncle Bug
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 14 June 1921 DIED: 11 Oct 1976 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Benkelman, Dundy co, Nebraska
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1930 NE CENSUS – Willard Miller (8y, b Nebraska) enumerated with parents Levi E. (57y, b Missouri, married at age 44y, occupation farmer) and DeLana (40y, b Colorado, married at age 28y) and 2 sisters, Alma (12y, b Nebraska) and Luella (5y, b Nebraska)

1940 NE CENSUS – Willard Miller (18y, b Nebraska, occupation farm laborer) enumerated with mother Lena (50y, b Colorado, widowed) and 2 siblings, Luella (15y, b Nebraska) and Alan (9y, b Nebraska); family was living in same house in 1935  

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (Marion Couny 1976) #76-16115

OBITUARY: 

Willard Levi Miller, 55, of 1137 7th St NW, died Monday in a Salem hospital. Born in Benkelman, Neb, he moved to Salem in 1948, where he worked for Eola Tile and Concrete as a bookkeeper. Survivors include mother, Lena Miller; brothers, Monford Hawks, Pendleton, and Alan Miller, Independence, sisters Ella Cantrell, Fort Morgan, Colo, Alma Smith and Louella Troxell, both of Salem. Services will be at 1:30 pm Thursday at Howell-Edwards-Doerksen mortuary, with interment in Zena Cemetery.

Oregon Statesman, Tuesday, October 12, 1976, page 20

INSCRIPTION: 

Willard L. Miller
BM2 US Navy
World War II
1921 - 1976
"Uncle Bug"

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
ODI
SSDI

1930 NE CENSUS (Dundy co, Benkelman, ED 3, sheet 1B)

1940 NE CENSUS (Dundy co, Benkelman, ED 29-3, sheet 1B) 

OS, 12 Oct 1976, page 20 

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