- Date Of Birth: July 21, 1925
- Date Of Death: December 20, 2011
- State: Indiana
Louis (Lou) was born on July 21, 1925, in DuQuoin, Illinois, the youngest child of Emil and Emilia (Wipiewski) Miller. He attended 8 grades of parochial school at the Sacred Heart church. Following graduation from DuQuoin High School he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, the North Africa Field Division, Persian Gulf Command, as a Sergeant. Thanks to the U.S. Congress and the G.I. Bill he was able to attend college, the first in his family to do so. Majoring in both botany and zoology he graduated with a Batchelor’s Degree in 1950 from Southern Illinois University. That’s where he also met his future wife, Norma, where she was working, as a student, in the campus library. Following graduation they married and moved to Indiana; where Lou had accepted a job developing a coal analysis laboratory near Terre Haute. That then led to a similar position in the Indiana Geological Survey, based on the campus of Indiana University. He was a charter member of the I.U. Credit Union and was awarded the Sagamore of the Wabash by Governor Bayh for 35 years of service – Lou was active in the Bloomington Central Lions Club, including a term as president and was honored with its Melvin Jones Fellow award. Louis is survived by his wife of 61 years, Norma (Giddings) Miller, sons David Miller, Evan (Keleen) Miller, daughter Renee (Tyna Hunnicutt) Miller and son-in-law Tom Pfister. Grandchildren are Michelle and Kevan Miller, Anna (Ratliff) and Lowell Johnson, Katherine Norris, Christina (Norris) and Sage Tanier-Gesner, Sarah Pfister, James Pfister and Caroline Pfister. Other family survivors are nieces and nephews Verna and John McAteer, Randall Rees, Carole Murray and Lisle Gates, Roberta (George)Santoro and Cindy Olson. Lou was preceded in death by his parents and one daughter Robin Miller Pfister. Also surviving are several great nieces and great-grandchildren.
