OBIT: Dwight Lyman MILLER, 1946, Springs, Somerset County, PA

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DWIGHT L. MILLER

  Dwight Lyman Miller, 51, general manager and senior partner of the Miller 
Machine Works, died at his home in Springs on Monday night, October 7.  His 
death was caused by chronic nephritis, extending over a period of several years.  
He was born on December 14, 1894, a son of the late Gideon D. and Katy (Otto) 
Miller.
  On October 4, 1916, Mr. Miller was married to Anna Lohr.  He is survived by 
his wife, a son, Lowell, a daughter, Lorraine, and a grandson.  He is also 
survived by two brothers, Myron and Aaron, who were partners with him in the 
business which their father had founded over fifty years ago.
  As a boy, Mr. Miller spent much time in the machine shop at Springs, where his 
father was designing and developing a steam traction engine.  Some years later 
when his father was superintendent of the 20th Century Manufacturing Company at 
Boynton, engaged in the manufacture of these traction engines, Mr. Miller was 
employed in the office of this company.  In 1917 the father and the two oldest 
sons again returned to the Springs community where they formed the registered 
partnership of Miller Machine Works.
  Funeral services were held in the Springs Mennonite Church, of which the 
deceased was a member, on Thursday, October 10, at 2:30 p.m., Rev. Roy 
Kinsinger, and the pastor, Bishop Roy Otto, officiating.  A male quartette sang 
a number of appropriate hymns.  The pallbearers were Myron, Homer and Fay 
Livengood, Herman and Olen Bender and Bruce Folk.  Burial in the church cemetery 
was in charge of undertaker Wm. Winterberg of Grantsville.

Meyersdale Republican, October 18, 1946