OBIT: William Tell MILLER, 1940, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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WILLIAM TELL MILLER

  William Tell Miller, aged 67 years, died on Thursday, May 30, in the St. 
Francis Hospital, Waterloo, Iowa, following an illness of heart disease and 
pneumonia.
  He had worked as truck driver for the Waterloo waterworks for about twenty 
years, and retired from that position in January 1937, when he suffered a heart 
attack, and had not been employed since because of poor health.  He had been 
seriously ill for a month.
  Mr. Miller was born Nov. 5, 1872, in Garrett County, Maryland, the son of Mr. 
and Mrs. Abraham Miller.  He married Mary Parnell in Somerfield in 1896 and the 
couple went to Waterloo to live in 1915.  Mr. Miller had been a truck gardener 
before going to work for the waterworks.  His wife died in 1918.
  Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Earl Strayer, R.D. 2, Waterloo, Iowa; Mrs. 
A. P. Callies, Grosse Pointe, Michigan; Mrs. Raymond Lucas, Decatur, Ill.; three 
sons, Frank and Robert Miller, both of Peoria, Ill., and James Miller, Decatur, 
Ill.; five sisters, Mrs. E. K. Blauch, Aurora, Ohio; Miss Lizzie Miller, 
Salisbury; Mrs. Mattie Spears, Sharon; Mrs. Allie Speicher, Accident, Md.; Mrs. 
L. B. Armstrong, Gaithersburg, Md.; eleven grandchildren and one great-
grandchild.
  Funeral services were conducted on Sunday afternoon, June 2, in the Peterson 
Brothers Chapel, Waterloo, by Rev. Maynard R. Rogers, pastor of Hagerman Baptist 
Church.  Burial was made in Elmwood Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, June 13, 1940