Youngest of four sons of Harry C Miller and Lucy Elizabeth Judy of Decatur, Illinois, John D. was married twice, and with his second wife, Sarah Jane Rice, had three children.
As a young man, he worked as a soda jerk, in retail sales, and as an express shipping messenger in conjunction with the Illinois Central Railroad.
During World War II, he served with some distinction in the Army, driving ammunition trucks to the front lines in order to resupply the combat troops. He served in North Africa, Malta, Sicily, in the battles at Anzio and the Po Valley, Italy, among other areas.
Post-war he was employed by the Spiegel Company in Chicago as an Advertising Supervisor in the display and advertising department. By the early 1950s, he had founded his own business, Miller Advertising Service, an industrial graphics and typesetting firm, first in Burlington, Wisconsin, and later in Racine, Wisconsin, about 1960. He retired in the 1970s.
He collapsed from an intestinal aneurysm while surrounded by many of those he truly liked and enjoyed--his bowling team. While conscious going into the operating room for surgery, he later obviously made the decision to go home to God. What remained was cremated, and in late summer of 1985, his wife and youngest daughter carried out his wishes to scatter his ashes in one of his favorite places ~ Lake Thompson, off of Norwood Resort near Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He loved the Northwoods.
As a young man, he worked as a soda jerk, in retail sales, and as an express shipping messenger in conjunction with the Illinois Central Railroad.
During World War II, he served with some distinction in the Army, driving ammunition trucks to the front lines in order to resupply the combat troops. He served in North Africa, Malta, Sicily, in the battles at Anzio and the Po Valley, Italy, among other areas.
Post-war he was employed by the Spiegel Company in Chicago as an Advertising Supervisor in the display and advertising department. By the early 1950s, he had founded his own business, Miller Advertising Service, an industrial graphics and typesetting firm, first in Burlington, Wisconsin, and later in Racine, Wisconsin, about 1960. He retired in the 1970s.
He collapsed from an intestinal aneurysm while surrounded by many of those he truly liked and enjoyed--his bowling team. While conscious going into the operating room for surgery, he later obviously made the decision to go home to God. What remained was cremated, and in late summer of 1985, his wife and youngest daughter carried out his wishes to scatter his ashes in one of his favorite places ~ Lake Thompson, off of Norwood Resort near Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He loved the Northwoods.
Youngest of four sons of Harry C Miller and Lucy Elizabeth Judy of Decatur, Illinois, John D. was married twice, and with his second wife, Sarah Jane Rice, had three children.
As a young man, he worked as a soda jerk, in retail sales, and as an express shipping messenger in conjunction with the Illinois Central Railroad.
During World War II, he served with some distinction in the Army, driving ammunition trucks to the front lines in order to resupply the combat troops. He served in North Africa, Malta, Sicily, in the battles at Anzio and the Po Valley, Italy, among other areas.
Post-war he was employed by the Spiegel Company in Chicago as an Advertising Supervisor in the display and advertising department. By the early 1950s, he had founded his own business, Miller Advertising Service, an industrial graphics and typesetting firm, first in Burlington, Wisconsin, and later in Racine, Wisconsin, about 1960. He retired in the 1970s.
He collapsed from an intestinal aneurysm while surrounded by many of those he truly liked and enjoyed--his bowling team. While conscious going into the operating room for surgery, he later obviously made the decision to go home to God. What remained was cremated, and in late summer of 1985, his wife and youngest daughter carried out his wishes to scatter his ashes in one of his favorite places ~ Lake Thompson, off of Norwood Resort near Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He loved the Northwoods.
As a young man, he worked as a soda jerk, in retail sales, and as an express shipping messenger in conjunction with the Illinois Central Railroad.
During World War II, he served with some distinction in the Army, driving ammunition trucks to the front lines in order to resupply the combat troops. He served in North Africa, Malta, Sicily, in the battles at Anzio and the Po Valley, Italy, among other areas.
Post-war he was employed by the Spiegel Company in Chicago as an Advertising Supervisor in the display and advertising department. By the early 1950s, he had founded his own business, Miller Advertising Service, an industrial graphics and typesetting firm, first in Burlington, Wisconsin, and later in Racine, Wisconsin, about 1960. He retired in the 1970s.
He collapsed from an intestinal aneurysm while surrounded by many of those he truly liked and enjoyed--his bowling team. While conscious going into the operating room for surgery, he later obviously made the decision to go home to God. What remained was cremated, and in late summer of 1985, his wife and youngest daughter carried out his wishes to scatter his ashes in one of his favorite places ~ Lake Thompson, off of Norwood Resort near Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He loved the Northwoods.
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