Obit: Miller, Ellen Lucille (1912 - 2005)

Contact:  Crystal Wendt

Surnames: Miller, Kelch, Mertens, Vetterkind, Stoskopf

----Sources: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Wed, Sep 14, 2005

Miller, Ellen Lucille (22 Oct. 1912 - 13 Sept. 2005)

WITHEE -Ellen Lucille Miller, 92, of Gilman, formerly of Withee, died Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005, at Zastrow Care Center, Gilman.

Services will be at 7 p.m. Friday at Maurina Funeral Home in Owen, Wis. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Withee.

Visitation will be from 4 p.m. until service time Friday at the funeral home.

She was born Oct. 22, 1912, in Withee to Peter and Elva (Kelch) Mertens. She married Harold Vetterkind in 1930. He drowned in 1932. She then married Raymond Miller in 1937. He died in 1958. She had lived and farmed in the town of Longwood. Following her husband's death, she was employed as a cook for Owen Withee High School, Meadowview Country Club and a resort in Minocqua.

She is survived by her daughter, Bonnie Jean Stoskopf, Wauwatosa, and Duane Raymond Miller, Charlotte, N.C.; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; four brothers, Peter (Bonnie) Mertens, Clearwater, Fla., August (Molly) Mertens, Stanley, Eugene Mertens, Withee, and Kenneth (Betty) Mertens, McFarland.