WINFRED N. MILLER
WINFRED NORMAN MILLER OF BELGRADE, MISSOURI, WAS BORN OCTOBER 3, 1911, IN PARNELL, MISSOURI, A SON OF THE LATE GEORGE ELMER AND AMERICA ELLEN (FOLAND) MILLER. WINFRED DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT GEORGIAN GARDENS NURSING HOME ON APRIL 21, 1999, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF EIGHTY-SEVEN YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND EIGHTEEN DAYS.
WINFRED WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO NORA HAYES ON APRIL 22, 1939, IN RICHWOODS, MISSOURI AND TO THIS UNION THREE CHILDREN WERE BORN.
WINFRED IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, NORA L. MILLER OF BELGRADE, ONE SON, NORMAN MILLER AND WIFE KAREN OF ST. LOUIS, ONE DAUGHTER, PATRICIA E. YOUNT AND HUSBAND GARY OF BELGRADE, ELEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, ONE BROTHER, VICTOR MILLER AND WIFE THELMA OF RAVENWOOD, MISSOURI, ONE SISTER, ROSALIE BRAND OF CHESTER, NEW YORK AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE SON ROBERT L. MILLER, ONE BROTHER, AUSTIN MILLER, THREE SISTERS, NAOMI TUTTLE, EUNICE MADDEN AND RACHEL BERG.
WINFRED WAS A DEVOTED CHRISTIAN AND ATTENDED THE ST. JOHN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN BISMARCK, MISSOURI.
WINFRED'S LIFE OF HARD WORK LEAD HIM DOWN THE PATH OF MANY PROFESSIONS BUT ALL WERE ASSOCIATED WITH THE FARMING INDUSTRY. HE HAD SERVED AS ASSISTANT HERDSMAN FOR RALSTON PURINA AT AN EXPERIMENTAL FARM IN GRAY SUMMIT, MISSOURI. WINFRED LOVED WORKING HARD IN HIS FIELDS TO PRODUCE QUALITY PRODUCTS. HE WAS ABLE TO FIND HUMOR IN EVERY SITUATION. HE LOVED NATURE AND FARMING WAS NOT A JOB BUT HIS LIFE LONG LOVE. HE ALWAYS THOUGHT OF EVERYONE ELSE BEFORE HIMSELF.
VISITATION WAS HELD THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1999, FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
A FUNERAL MASS WAS CELEBRATED FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1999, AT 10:00 A.M. AT ST. STEPHENS CATHOLIC CHURCH WITH FATHER JIM FRENCH OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN ST. STEPHENS CATHOLIC CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, DWAYNE A. MILLER, WRAY P. MILLER, GREG L. YOUNT, RYAN SCOTT YOUNT, JOE L. ALLEN AND JOHN RIMMER.