Rock Island-Brown County IL Archives Obituaries.....Miller, Thomas William February 21, 1956
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The Rock Island Argus, No.110, Wednesday 22 Feb 1956
Death occurred instantly for Thomas Miller 24, of 731 10th St., Rock Island, 
at 1:30 yesterday afternoon when his panel truck and a semi trailer truck 
collided on Highway 64 in Preston, Iowa.
W. C. Zabloudil of Preston, Jackson County coroner, after an investigation of 
the fatality, ruled it an "accidental death" and said no inquest will be held.
Coroner Zabloudil said Miller was traveling north in his panel truck and was 
crossing Highway 64 in Preston when a semi-trailer truck operated by James 
Murphy, 38, of Savanna, Ill., struck the rear of the Miller vehicle. Murphy, 
who escaped injury, was driving east on the highway, the coroner stated.
The panel truck whirled around and Miller was thrown out and struck his head 
on a tree, Zabloudil declared. The Rock Island man died instantly of a 
fractured skull, the coroner said.
The body was taken to the Krabbenhof Funeral Home in Preston and then removed 
to the Hodgson Funeral Home, Rock Island
Friday Services
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Moline Gospel Temple, 
with the Rev. Charles L. Hoilis, pastor, officiating.
Friends may call at the Hodgson Funeral Home after noon tomorrow until noon 
Friday, when the body will be taken to the church.
Miller was born March 15, 1931 in Mt. Sterling. He was a son of Thomas and 
Sarah Miller, He had lived in the Quad-City area for 11 years, nine of which 
he lived in Rock Island.
He married Georgetta Huggins July 29, 1950, in Rock Island.
For the past five years he was a truck driver for Jaydon Distributors Inc., 
Moline
Surving are the widow and a son, Steven; his stepfather and mother, Mr. and 
Mrs. Ralp D. Smith, Rock Island; grandfather, William McDaniel, Meredosia, 
Ill.; two sister, Mrs. Alberta Brown, Moline, and Mrs. Mary Hunter Quincy, a 
brother, Robert Miller, Smith, Rock Island, He was preceded in death by his 
father, brother and a sister

Additional Comments:
Obituary Corrections
* McCann is Georgetta's maiden, Huggins was her stepfather
* Smith is in reference to his half brother Lawrence Smith 


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