USMC - Killed In Action
RITES SET TODAY FOR CAPT. MILLER
Relatives and friends of Capt. Jack M. Miller, U.S.M.C. who was killed in action in the Pacific in December, 1942, will meet at the Smith funeral home at 2 p.m. today and go to Fairmount cemetery where Father Stephen J. Buckley of St. Augustine's church will conduct graveside services. The body of Capt. Miller arrives this morning from San Francisco.
Memorial services were held there for the 2875 war dead returned from the Pacific area aboard the army transport Cardinal O'Connell, which arrived a month ago. Capt. Miller was one of 49 World War II heroes from Washington state on the ship.
Capt. Miller, a son of Mrs. Eleanor Welch Miller and the late Monroe K. Miller, was a grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Welch. His widow is the former Ann O'Neill, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Frank W. O'Neill. Two daughters, Suzanne and Jacqueline, also survive.
Capt. Miller was with the first contingent of marine reservists to leave Spokane, and before being sent to the Pacific had been in Iceland. At the time he was killed he had been in the Solomon islands for four months.
Published in The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington) on Thursday, March 11, 1948.
Contributor: Steven Phillips (49619983)
RITES SET TODAY FOR CAPT. MILLER
Relatives and friends of Capt. Jack M. Miller, U.S.M.C. who was killed in action in the Pacific in December, 1942, will meet at the Smith funeral home at 2 p.m. today and go to Fairmount cemetery where Father Stephen J. Buckley of St. Augustine's church will conduct graveside services. The body of Capt. Miller arrives this morning from San Francisco.
Memorial services were held there for the 2875 war dead returned from the Pacific area aboard the army transport Cardinal O'Connell, which arrived a month ago. Capt. Miller was one of 49 World War II heroes from Washington state on the ship.
Capt. Miller, a son of Mrs. Eleanor Welch Miller and the late Monroe K. Miller, was a grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Welch. His widow is the former Ann O'Neill, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Frank W. O'Neill. Two daughters, Suzanne and Jacqueline, also survive.
Capt. Miller was with the first contingent of marine reservists to leave Spokane, and before being sent to the Pacific had been in Iceland. At the time he was killed he had been in the Solomon islands for four months.
Published in The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington) on Thursday, March 11, 1948.
Contributor: Steven Phillips (49619983)
USMC - Killed In Action
RITES SET TODAY FOR CAPT. MILLER
Relatives and friends of Capt. Jack M. Miller, U.S.M.C. who was killed in action in the Pacific in December, 1942, will meet at the Smith funeral home at 2 p.m. today and go to Fairmount cemetery where Father Stephen J. Buckley of St. Augustine's church will conduct graveside services. The body of Capt. Miller arrives this morning from San Francisco.
Memorial services were held there for the 2875 war dead returned from the Pacific area aboard the army transport Cardinal O'Connell, which arrived a month ago. Capt. Miller was one of 49 World War II heroes from Washington state on the ship.
Capt. Miller, a son of Mrs. Eleanor Welch Miller and the late Monroe K. Miller, was a grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Welch. His widow is the former Ann O'Neill, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Frank W. O'Neill. Two daughters, Suzanne and Jacqueline, also survive.
Capt. Miller was with the first contingent of marine reservists to leave Spokane, and before being sent to the Pacific had been in Iceland. At the time he was killed he had been in the Solomon islands for four months.
Published in The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington) on Thursday, March 11, 1948.
Contributor: Steven Phillips (49619983)
RITES SET TODAY FOR CAPT. MILLER
Relatives and friends of Capt. Jack M. Miller, U.S.M.C. who was killed in action in the Pacific in December, 1942, will meet at the Smith funeral home at 2 p.m. today and go to Fairmount cemetery where Father Stephen J. Buckley of St. Augustine's church will conduct graveside services. The body of Capt. Miller arrives this morning from San Francisco.
Memorial services were held there for the 2875 war dead returned from the Pacific area aboard the army transport Cardinal O'Connell, which arrived a month ago. Capt. Miller was one of 49 World War II heroes from Washington state on the ship.
Capt. Miller, a son of Mrs. Eleanor Welch Miller and the late Monroe K. Miller, was a grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Welch. His widow is the former Ann O'Neill, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Frank W. O'Neill. Two daughters, Suzanne and Jacqueline, also survive.
Capt. Miller was with the first contingent of marine reservists to leave Spokane, and before being sent to the Pacific had been in Iceland. At the time he was killed he had been in the Solomon islands for four months.
Published in The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington) on Thursday, March 11, 1948.
Contributor: Steven Phillips (49619983)
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