- Date Of Birth: February 25, 1935
- Date Of Death: May 6, 2008
- State: Iowa
Milo G. “Mike” McConnell, 73, of Atlantic, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, May 6, 2008, at Creighton Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, after a lengthy illness.
Milo was born on February 25, 1935, in Decatur County, Iowa, the son of Alva and Olive (Hall) McConnell, one of eleven children.
He was raised in the southeastern Iowa area and graduated from Van Wert High School. Milo served in the U.S. Army from February 1954 to January 1957, serving part of that time in Germany.
On August 15, 1958, he married Darlene Ina Nelson in Lincoln, Nebraska, and five children were born. They lived in Des Moines where he began his career with the post office in 1961. They then moved to Atlantic where he finished his 32 year career in 1992. With his father-in-law, he built their current home north of Atlantic which they moved into in 1967.
He was a Union Steward, President of the Atlantic Postal Union and a member of the U.S Postal Union.
