Mr. Miller died at 7:00 Thursday evening in the St. Anthony Hospital at Carroll after a five-day illness following a tooth extraction. An infection which set in developed into gangrene. He was in a critical condition when he was taken to the hospital Monday.
Born March 20, 1885, in Dettingen, Germany, Mr. Miller came to this country at the age of nineteen years. He settled in Audubon County. A farmer and cattleman, he farmed in Audubon and Carroll Counties, principally in Audubon, his present home being on the farm on which he had lived for the last twelve years.
February 16, 1911, he was married to Miss Laura Holtz at Audubon. Surviving with his wife are one daughter, Mrs. Herman Frahm (Elsie), Manning; his mother, Mrs. Marie Miller, Baltimore, Maryland; four sisters, Mrs. Ernest Mutschall, Audubon County; Mrs. John Barten, Manning; Mrs. Walter Steffen, Baltimore, Maryland; and Mrs. John Lieb, Keymar, Maryland, and one brother, John Miller, Washington, D.C. His father preceded him in death.
Mr. Miller was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church of Lincoln Township.
Carroll Daily Times Herald, September 14, 1940
Services at Manning for George Miller
Funeral services for George Miller, 55, were held Sunday in the Trinity
Lutheran Church in Lincoln Township. The Rev. Walter A. Otto conducted the services with burial in Manning Cemetery.
Mr. Miller died in Carroll following a five-day illness.
He is survived by his widow, one daughter, Mrs. Herman Frahm
of Manning; one brother, John Miller, who lives in Maryland, a sister, Mrs.
Walter Steffen, lives in Maryland, as does his mother, a sister, Mrs. John
Barten of Manning, and a sister, Mrs. Ernest Mutschall in Audubon County.
Daily Nonpareil, September 16, 1940