Wayne County, NC - Mills Family to be Returned to U.S. for Burial

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The five bodies of the Benjamin L. {Lloyd] Mills family will be 
returned to the United States for burial. The former Wayne County 
family was killed while sleeping in their home Thursday morning 
when a B-29 Superfortress crashed at Anderson Air Force Base, on 
Guam, in an emergency landing.

According to Mrs. T.W. Jones, sister of Mrs. Mills, a call from
Washington yesterday afternoon assured both the Mills and Stevens
families that the bodies will be returned to the United States.

Place of burial has not been determined. The funeral will be held 
at Wayne Memorial Park or Coeburn, Va., where the Mills family
cemetery is located. John Mills, father of Lt. Col. Mills, now 
lives in Coeburn.

The Washington report said it would take approximately four weeks
for the bodies to arrive at the location of burial after the place
has been decided upon. Bodies will arrive in San Francisco by boat
and be flown as near as possible to burial site.

Listed among the dead other than Col. Mills and his wife [Agnes
Stevens] were their three children: Margaret Elaine, nine; Helen 
Louise, five; and Martha Emma, two.

Col. Mills had been stationed on Guam since March, 1953. Mrs. Mills
and the children joined him there in July.

Goldsboro News-Argus, Saturday, December 19, 1953

[This family is buried at Wayne Memorial Park and their tombstones
all have December 17, 1953 as the date of death]

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