Raymond "Ray" Francis Miller

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Name: Raymond "Ray" Francis Miller
Location of Birth: Long Island City, New York
Date of Birth: October 14, 1894
Date of Death: January 9, 1972
Parents: Lewis M. Miller & Sarah M. (Werkheiser) Miller
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Highest Rank: Pvt (Private)
Branch: Army
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Date Sworn In: 1918
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Date of Discharge: July 15, 1919
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Military Highlights:
World War I Registration Card
Name: Raymond Francis Miller
Age: 22
Home address: Taconite, Minnesota
Date of birth: October 14, 1894
Citizenship: Natural born
Place of birth: Long Island City, New York, USA
If not a citizen, what country: -----
Present occupation: Machinist helper
By whom employed: Oliver Iron Mining Co.
Where employed: Taconite, Minnesota
Dependents to support: No
Marital status: Single
Race: Caucasian
Prior military service: None
Claim exception from draft: No
Tall, medium, or short: Short
Slender, medium or stout: Medium
Color of eyes: Grey
Color of hair: Brown
Bald: No
Disability: No
Date of registration: June 5, 1917
Place of registration: Iron Range, Itasca, Minnesota

Raymond Miller departed Hoboken, New Jersey on March 30, 1918 aboard the "President Lincoln" as a Private with the 19th Engineers - Camp Pike Replacement Detachment bound for France.

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World War I

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Civilian Life:
Ray Miller was a resident of Itasca County for forty-three years, the last five of which were in Marble. He was a retired M.A. Hanna employee.

Ray died at the Itasca Nursing Home in Grand Rapids, Minnesota and is buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Coleraine, Minnesota (Block 121). He is survived by his wife, Avanelle; one daughter, Maida (James) Peterson; two sons, Ronald D. Miller and Jack D. Miller; one sister, Nellie Wilson; one brother, J.D. Miller; ten grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

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