News: Neillsville - Am. Legion To Honor Gary Miller (Jan 2019)
Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
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----Surnames: Miller
----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark, Co) 1/02/2019
American Legion to Honor Local Veteran (Gary Miller - 2019)
Neillsville Legion to Honor Gary Miller
Gary Miller will be one of two veterans, to be recognized by the Neillsville
Legion Post Jan. 7. (Submitted photo)
As a part of ongoing efforts to honor the nation’s veterans, Legion Post 73 in
Neillsville will honor area veteran Gary Miller.
Miller was born in Marshfield. He attended grade school in Granton for a year,
but eventually graduated from eighth grade in Neillsville and graduated from
Neillsville High School in 1967.
After high school, he worked at Presto Industries in Eau Claire, but joined the
Air Force in February 1968. He had basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in
San Antonio, Texas.
His advanced training was in cryogenics, the branch of physics that studies how
matter behaves at extremely low temperatures. That was at Chanute Air Force Base
in Rantoul, IL.
Miller was transferred to Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, where he
helped manage a liquid oxygen plant. He later was transferred to Carswell Air
Force Base at Fort Worth, TX, where he refueled aircraft.
He was discharged in January 1972. He returned to Neillsville where he worked
for Gaier Construction until 1979. Miller than took over his in-law’s dairy farm
until 2013. He now is a seasonal worker at the Clark County Forestry and Parks
Department.
Miller married his wife Linda, in 1973. They have three children – Matt, Jolene
and Leah – and five spirited grandchildren. Miller enjoys hunting, fishing and
trail riding.
Miller will be honored Jan. 7 at the Legion, 6 Boon Boulevard. There will be a
social hour at 4:30 p.m. with a potluck at 5:30 p.m.
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