OBITUARY: Reed Millard, 1883-1966 Mitchell County, Iowa

[Source: Mitchell County Press-News or Mason City Globe Gazette]
  


                     REED MILLARD DIED SATURDAY
      
Funeral services for an Osage man, Reed Millard, 82, were held Monday at the
Methodist church in Osage.  Mr. Millard, father of James Millard, Osage
Mayor, died Saturday at the Osage Nursing Home where he had been a resident
for the past year. (Jan. 27, 1966)

The Rev. Robert Smith, church pastor, was in charge of the services and
arrangements were by C. R. Champion and Sons. Burial was in the Osage
cemetery.

Reed Nicholas Millard was born in Mitchell county, on a farm near Brownsille,
March 8, 1883, the son of Elmer and Mary Nicholas Millard.  He attended the
Mossville school, the Barker school in Liberty township, and Cedar Valley
Seminary in Osage.

As a young man he left the United States to homestead in Saskatchewan,
Canada.  His marriage to Francis Gertrude Dieterich of New Haven took
place in Milestone, Saskatchewan, in 1910. In 1928 the family returned
to Osage.  He was in the employ of the Osage Greenhouse for 18 years.

Mr. Millard is survived by five children: Inez, Mrs. Harold Teeters, of
Greene; Bertha, Mrs. Matt Kramer, Jeanne, Mrs. Hubert Schumacher and Reed
Millard of Minneapolis and his son James of Osage, eight grandchildren,
his three sisters, Mrs. Inez Dunn; Nettie, Mrs. Gersham Lashbrook; and
Bessie, Mrs. Harry Johnson, Osage.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Frances, his parents, one brother
and one sister.



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