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CPL Terry Vernon Miller

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CPL Terry Vernon Miller

Birth
Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa, USA
Death
29 May 1969 (aged 23)
Quảng Ngãi, Vietnam
Burial
Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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MILITARY DATA
Service: Army of the United States
Grade at loss: E3
Rank: Corporal
Note: Posthumous Promotion as indicated
ID No: 54932017
MOS: 11B10: Infantryman
Length Service: 00
Unit: 1ST PLT, B CO, 4TH BN, 21ST INFANTRY, 11TH INFANTRY BDE, AMERICAL DIV, USARV

CASUALTY DATA
Start Tour: 03/18/1969
Incident Date: 05/29/1969
Casualty Date: 05/29/1969
Age at Loss: 23
Location: Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam
Remains: Body recovered
Casualty Type: Hostile, died outright
Casualty Reason: Ground casualty
Casualty Detail: Gun or small arms fire

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PURPLE HEART RECIPIENT
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Courtesy of the Ottumwa Courier May 28, 1969

MILLER SERVICES

Services for Pvt. Terry Vernon Miller, 23, of 1526 Locust are planned for Monday at 2:30 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church. The PVT was killed May 23, in Vietnam during a enemy attack on the outpost where he was serving with CO B Fourth Battalion of the 21st Infantry 11th American Division.Burial will be at Ottumwa Cemetery.

The body will arrive in Des Moines tonight accompanied by his brother; Gregg who is serving with the Navy in the Phillipines. It will be brought to the Reece Funeral Home in Ottumwa.

A memorial fund has been established by the family called: "The Terry Miller Fund and for the YMCA" payable to the First National Bank of Ottumwa. Another fund has been established to Trinity Lutheran Church here.

Flags will be flown at half mast in Ottumwa; Monday in his honor. The Ottumwa City Council earlier resolved the American flag should be flown at half mast here for local servicemen killed while serving their country.

The son of Vernon L. and Betty Lapham Miller of 209 N. Fellows. He was born March 1, 1945 in Ottumwa. A graduate of Ottumwa High School in 1964; he attended Northeast Missouri State college for four years and was on the honor roll in the art department. He needed one quarter of practice teaching to receive his B.S. Degree in Art and Education when he was drafted on July 7, 1968. He went to Vietnam in March of this year.

A former member of Wesley United Methodist Church and was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church. He was active in YMCA for many years. He has been in summer training employee of John Deere Company.

His marriage to Miss Cheatman took place on September 2, 1967 in Ottumwa; she survives; also surviving are one son Christian Miller born Feb 2, 1969; his parents; two brothers; Roger at home and Gregg; a sister Sherry Miller at home; and grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Lester Crable and Mrs Faye Miller of Ottumwa.
MILITARY DATA
Service: Army of the United States
Grade at loss: E3
Rank: Corporal
Note: Posthumous Promotion as indicated
ID No: 54932017
MOS: 11B10: Infantryman
Length Service: 00
Unit: 1ST PLT, B CO, 4TH BN, 21ST INFANTRY, 11TH INFANTRY BDE, AMERICAL DIV, USARV

CASUALTY DATA
Start Tour: 03/18/1969
Incident Date: 05/29/1969
Casualty Date: 05/29/1969
Age at Loss: 23
Location: Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam
Remains: Body recovered
Casualty Type: Hostile, died outright
Casualty Reason: Ground casualty
Casualty Detail: Gun or small arms fire

ON THE WALL Panel W23 Line 16

PURPLE HEART RECIPIENT
***********************************************
Courtesy of the Ottumwa Courier May 28, 1969

MILLER SERVICES

Services for Pvt. Terry Vernon Miller, 23, of 1526 Locust are planned for Monday at 2:30 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church. The PVT was killed May 23, in Vietnam during a enemy attack on the outpost where he was serving with CO B Fourth Battalion of the 21st Infantry 11th American Division.Burial will be at Ottumwa Cemetery.

The body will arrive in Des Moines tonight accompanied by his brother; Gregg who is serving with the Navy in the Phillipines. It will be brought to the Reece Funeral Home in Ottumwa.

A memorial fund has been established by the family called: "The Terry Miller Fund and for the YMCA" payable to the First National Bank of Ottumwa. Another fund has been established to Trinity Lutheran Church here.

Flags will be flown at half mast in Ottumwa; Monday in his honor. The Ottumwa City Council earlier resolved the American flag should be flown at half mast here for local servicemen killed while serving their country.

The son of Vernon L. and Betty Lapham Miller of 209 N. Fellows. He was born March 1, 1945 in Ottumwa. A graduate of Ottumwa High School in 1964; he attended Northeast Missouri State college for four years and was on the honor roll in the art department. He needed one quarter of practice teaching to receive his B.S. Degree in Art and Education when he was drafted on July 7, 1968. He went to Vietnam in March of this year.

A former member of Wesley United Methodist Church and was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church. He was active in YMCA for many years. He has been in summer training employee of John Deere Company.

His marriage to Miss Cheatman took place on September 2, 1967 in Ottumwa; she survives; also surviving are one son Christian Miller born Feb 2, 1969; his parents; two brothers; Roger at home and Gregg; a sister Sherry Miller at home; and grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Lester Crable and Mrs Faye Miller of Ottumwa.


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