He was born, in Plainfield, as Robert Barnabas Packard on January 19, 1891 to Cyrus Winfield Packard, a farmer, and Dora Ann Mills, a possible participant in the temperance movement and was a member of a female Civil War veterans group.
On February 5, 1895, Robert's mother, Dora, died of tuberculosis (pulmonary phthisis) in Plainfield and was buried in Pottersville, part of New York’s Warren County, a town was over 35 miles north of her birth place, Glens Falls. This burial place was likely chosen to put her proximity with surviving Mills family members. The children of Cyrus and Dora split apart. Bert was adopted by his uncle, Robert Byron Mills I (RBM I). Either he took or was given the name of Robert Byron Mills, becoming RBM II or Bert for short.
Bert, for the years to come, lived in hotels with Uncle Rob, the hotel manager. In 1907, had an accident where he had four of his fingers of his right hand amputated after an accident with an ensilage cutter.
By 1917, Bert was an auto mechanic employed at Ford Motor Company garage after serving in the US Army. By the next year, he was a U.S. Army sergeant in a motor pool in WWI, according to the existing family history, and also began serving as a volunteer firefighter in Cheviot.
In 1921, he married Miriam Esther Hirst. They began courting in the Ebenezer Church in Ohio where William Norwood Hirst, Miriam's father, was briefly the minister!
Bert would be fire Chief in Cheviot for 21 years (1932-1953). This ended when he suffered a stroke while fighting a fire in 1953. In 1956, he was buried at Spring Grove. His obit calls him WWI vet and says he is associated with the American Legion.
His death notice is reprinted below:
Mills - Robert B. (Bert) beloved husband of Miriam Mills (nee Hirst), devoted father of Mrs. Alex (Helen) Efthim, Mrs. Paul (Carol) Sieck and Robert Byron Mills, Jr. [also called "Bob" or RBM III], dear brother of Mrs. Margaret Brown, Mrs. Giles (Mabel) Landstrom, Mrs. Marian Dean, and Charles Packard; also survived by two grandchildren; entered into rest at his residence, 3517 Bruestle Ave., Wednesday, April 11, 1956, in his 68th year. Funeral from John C. Gump Funeral Home, 3440 Glenmore Ave., at Herbert, Cheviot, Monday, April 16, at 10:30 a.m. Friends may call 2 to 10 p.m. Sunday. Cheviot's Firemen's Association will meet at 3 p.m.
On February 5, 1895, Robert's mother, Dora, died of tuberculosis (pulmonary phthisis) in Plainfield and was buried in Pottersville, part of New York’s Warren County, a town was over 35 miles north of her birth place, Glens Falls. This burial place was likely chosen to put her proximity with surviving Mills family members. The children of Cyrus and Dora split apart. Bert was adopted by his uncle, Robert Byron Mills I (RBM I). Either he took or was given the name of Robert Byron Mills, becoming RBM II or Bert for short.
Bert, for the years to come, lived in hotels with Uncle Rob, the hotel manager. In 1907, had an accident where he had four of his fingers of his right hand amputated after an accident with an ensilage cutter.
By 1917, Bert was an auto mechanic employed at Ford Motor Company garage after serving in the US Army. By the next year, he was a U.S. Army sergeant in a motor pool in WWI, according to the existing family history, and also began serving as a volunteer firefighter in Cheviot.
In 1921, he married Miriam Esther Hirst. They began courting in the Ebenezer Church in Ohio where William Norwood Hirst, Miriam's father, was briefly the minister!
Bert would be fire Chief in Cheviot for 21 years (1932-1953). This ended when he suffered a stroke while fighting a fire in 1953. In 1956, he was buried at Spring Grove. His obit calls him WWI vet and says he is associated with the American Legion.
His death notice is reprinted below:
Mills - Robert B. (Bert) beloved husband of Miriam Mills (nee Hirst), devoted father of Mrs. Alex (Helen) Efthim, Mrs. Paul (Carol) Sieck and Robert Byron Mills, Jr. [also called "Bob" or RBM III], dear brother of Mrs. Margaret Brown, Mrs. Giles (Mabel) Landstrom, Mrs. Marian Dean, and Charles Packard; also survived by two grandchildren; entered into rest at his residence, 3517 Bruestle Ave., Wednesday, April 11, 1956, in his 68th year. Funeral from John C. Gump Funeral Home, 3440 Glenmore Ave., at Herbert, Cheviot, Monday, April 16, at 10:30 a.m. Friends may call 2 to 10 p.m. Sunday. Cheviot's Firemen's Association will meet at 3 p.m.
He was born, in Plainfield, as Robert Barnabas Packard on January 19, 1891 to Cyrus Winfield Packard, a farmer, and Dora Ann Mills, a possible participant in the temperance movement and was a member of a female Civil War veterans group.
On February 5, 1895, Robert's mother, Dora, died of tuberculosis (pulmonary phthisis) in Plainfield and was buried in Pottersville, part of New York’s Warren County, a town was over 35 miles north of her birth place, Glens Falls. This burial place was likely chosen to put her proximity with surviving Mills family members. The children of Cyrus and Dora split apart. Bert was adopted by his uncle, Robert Byron Mills I (RBM I). Either he took or was given the name of Robert Byron Mills, becoming RBM II or Bert for short.
Bert, for the years to come, lived in hotels with Uncle Rob, the hotel manager. In 1907, had an accident where he had four of his fingers of his right hand amputated after an accident with an ensilage cutter.
By 1917, Bert was an auto mechanic employed at Ford Motor Company garage after serving in the US Army. By the next year, he was a U.S. Army sergeant in a motor pool in WWI, according to the existing family history, and also began serving as a volunteer firefighter in Cheviot.
In 1921, he married Miriam Esther Hirst. They began courting in the Ebenezer Church in Ohio where William Norwood Hirst, Miriam's father, was briefly the minister!
Bert would be fire Chief in Cheviot for 21 years (1932-1953). This ended when he suffered a stroke while fighting a fire in 1953. In 1956, he was buried at Spring Grove. His obit calls him WWI vet and says he is associated with the American Legion.
His death notice is reprinted below:
Mills - Robert B. (Bert) beloved husband of Miriam Mills (nee Hirst), devoted father of Mrs. Alex (Helen) Efthim, Mrs. Paul (Carol) Sieck and Robert Byron Mills, Jr. [also called "Bob" or RBM III], dear brother of Mrs. Margaret Brown, Mrs. Giles (Mabel) Landstrom, Mrs. Marian Dean, and Charles Packard; also survived by two grandchildren; entered into rest at his residence, 3517 Bruestle Ave., Wednesday, April 11, 1956, in his 68th year. Funeral from John C. Gump Funeral Home, 3440 Glenmore Ave., at Herbert, Cheviot, Monday, April 16, at 10:30 a.m. Friends may call 2 to 10 p.m. Sunday. Cheviot's Firemen's Association will meet at 3 p.m.
On February 5, 1895, Robert's mother, Dora, died of tuberculosis (pulmonary phthisis) in Plainfield and was buried in Pottersville, part of New York’s Warren County, a town was over 35 miles north of her birth place, Glens Falls. This burial place was likely chosen to put her proximity with surviving Mills family members. The children of Cyrus and Dora split apart. Bert was adopted by his uncle, Robert Byron Mills I (RBM I). Either he took or was given the name of Robert Byron Mills, becoming RBM II or Bert for short.
Bert, for the years to come, lived in hotels with Uncle Rob, the hotel manager. In 1907, had an accident where he had four of his fingers of his right hand amputated after an accident with an ensilage cutter.
By 1917, Bert was an auto mechanic employed at Ford Motor Company garage after serving in the US Army. By the next year, he was a U.S. Army sergeant in a motor pool in WWI, according to the existing family history, and also began serving as a volunteer firefighter in Cheviot.
In 1921, he married Miriam Esther Hirst. They began courting in the Ebenezer Church in Ohio where William Norwood Hirst, Miriam's father, was briefly the minister!
Bert would be fire Chief in Cheviot for 21 years (1932-1953). This ended when he suffered a stroke while fighting a fire in 1953. In 1956, he was buried at Spring Grove. His obit calls him WWI vet and says he is associated with the American Legion.
His death notice is reprinted below:
Mills - Robert B. (Bert) beloved husband of Miriam Mills (nee Hirst), devoted father of Mrs. Alex (Helen) Efthim, Mrs. Paul (Carol) Sieck and Robert Byron Mills, Jr. [also called "Bob" or RBM III], dear brother of Mrs. Margaret Brown, Mrs. Giles (Mabel) Landstrom, Mrs. Marian Dean, and Charles Packard; also survived by two grandchildren; entered into rest at his residence, 3517 Bruestle Ave., Wednesday, April 11, 1956, in his 68th year. Funeral from John C. Gump Funeral Home, 3440 Glenmore Ave., at Herbert, Cheviot, Monday, April 16, at 10:30 a.m. Friends may call 2 to 10 p.m. Sunday. Cheviot's Firemen's Association will meet at 3 p.m.
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