McMillen services

Mr. McMillen died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2003, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

He was born Sept. 28, 1912, in Stony Point, the son of Jack and Bertha Ann (Lawson) McMillen. He attended Stony Point Rural School.

Mr. McMillen was a steam engine operator for Palmyra Township and later a machine operator at Santa Fe Railroad from 1940 until he retired in 1974. He was a member of Ives Chapel United Methodist Church, Black Jack Historical Society and a 50-year member of Lloyd Beaton American Legion Post No. 228 in Baldwin. He served in the U.S. Army 770th Railway Operation Battalion during World War II. He received the Asiatic Pacific Service Medal, World War II Victory Medal and a Good Conduct Medal.

He married Lucille Robertson on Aug. 2, 1940, in Pleasant Grove. She died May 10, 1994.

Survivors include two daughters, Alice Gurley and Judy Wagner, both of Baldwin; a son, Jim, Tecumseh, a sister, Letha Myers, Baldwin; two brothers, Chester, Baldwin, and Dale, Pleasant Grove; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Friends may call after 9 a.m. today at Lamb-Roberts-Heise Funeral Home in Baldwin. Family will receive friends from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the church.

The family suggests memorials to the church or Vinland Cemetery Assn., sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 64, Baldwin 66006.