Vern Miller was born Nov. 4th, 1932 to Art and Thelma Miller and has passed away on March 10th, 2017
He was the 3rd child in a family of 8. He started school in Seibert, and except for 3 years in a country school north of Flagler, finished in Seibert High School.
After high school he joined the Air Force for 4 years and spent 2 years in Korea and Japan during the war.
After his discharge, he came back to Colorado and started working construction. He was in several various labors, including, truck driver, cement finisher, heavy equipment operator and 15 years in the carpenters union. In 1976 he started work for the Colorado Department of Highways, where he retired in 1996.
He served on the town board and he was with the Seibert Fire Department for 32 years, half of them as assistant Fire Chief.
Vern played baseball several years with the Siebert town team. He also played when he was in the Air Force. He coached little league and Babe Ruth. He had some very good teams.
Vern loved to hunt and four bull elk and many deer were harvested by him. However, his first love of hunting, was coyote hunting with his hounds.
Many days were spent with friends hunting, but in the later years hunting and care of the dogs with his son Frank was very special to him.
Vern wrote sixteen stories for the Hound and Hunter, a national wide publication magazine.
Vern and Kay were fisherman and fisherwomen. They took many trips with family from both sides. Places they fished included two trips to Alaska, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Lake Powell, Flaming Gorge, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, North Carolina, Virginia, Kansas, the Gulf of Mexico, and most of the big lakes in Colorado.
June 7th, 1959, Vern made the best move he ever made. He married Kay Cruickshank.
To this union four children were born. Tracy Ann, Janet Sue, Nancy Kay, and Frank Lee. Besides his four children, he has 2 son-in-laws, Dave Poole and Gary Eagleton, one daughter in law, Kim Miller. 8 grandchildren, 3 great grandchildren, 3 surviving brothers, Jim and wife Helena, Gene, Leroy and wife Kathy, sister in law, Roberta, one surviving sister, Mary Lou Morton and husband Roger, and a host of nieces and nephews.
A funeral service will be held Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. at the Community of Christ in Siebert, CO. Interment will follow at the Siebert Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to the Lincoln Community Hospice.