Robert E. Miller

ROBERT MILLER MUSCATINE, Iowa - Robert E. Miller, 88, of Muscatine, died on Wednesday, October 17, 2012, at Lutheran Homes. Funeral Service will be 10:30 a.m. on Monday, October 22, 2012, at Mulford Evangelical Free Church, 2400 Hershey Avenue. Reverend Jerry Foote and Reverend Clark Pantel will officiate. Casket bearers will be Earl S. Miller Jr., Brian J. Miller, Eric Creamer, Jay Anderson, Corey S. Grady, and Dave Reed. Burial will take place in Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 21, 2012, at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Mulford Evangelical Free Church. Robert was born on December 25, 1923, Newville, Pennsylvania, the son of Earl H. and Ethel Kamerer Miller. He married Patricia R. Behrens on December 27, 1944, in Carlisle. He graduated from Carlisle High School, class of 1940; he received his Bachelors of Science Degree in chemistry from Dickinson College in 1944; and his Ph. D, in organic chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949. He had worked for American Sugar Company, Allied Chemical Company, Masland Carpet Company, and Grain Processing Corporation, f...[more]

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which he retired as a Senior Vice-President in 1987. He was a member of the Mulford Evangelical Free Church and served in many positions including Sunday School Teacher, Deacon, Trustee, choir member, Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the Church. He also served on the Central District of the Evangelical Free Church of America as Chairman for three terms from 1987-1993 and 1999-2002. He was a member of the Board of Regents for the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and served on the Nomination Committee of the EFCA. In 1992, he was honored by the Free Church Laymen's Fellowship as the Layman of the Year. Those left to honor his memory include his wife, Patricia Miller of Muscatine; one son, Earl S. Miller Sr. and wife, Debra, of Muscatine; one daughter, Susan D. McIntire and significant other, David Reed, of Muscatine; five grandchildren, Earl Scott Miller Jr. and wife, Kari, Sara J. Creamer and husband, Eric, Brian J. Miller and wife, Christina, Carrie A. Anderson and husband, Jason, Corey S. Grady and wife, Meredith; one step-granddaughter, Amanda C. Curtis; and 10 great-grandchildren, Zachary, Jacob, Dylan, Logan, Allison, Taylor, Emma, Hayden, Jaxon, and Jaidyn. He was preceded in death by his parents, and one grandson, Eric Scott Miller.