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Lawrence Westley Miller

Male 1906 - 1984  (77 years)


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  • Name Lawrence Westley Miller 
    Born 24 Aug 1906  Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    _UID 8A8D3AEB4696BF4BB8CC8B9AD7619BB553D3 
    Died 4 May 1984  St Helens, Columbia, Oregon, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Buried Skyline Memorial - Portland, , Oregon, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • BIOGRAPHY: Notes for Lawrence Westley Miller: AKA, "Jimmy" "Shorty" [Brøderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: Oct 25, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.20246.166]
      Lawrence was Born in Topeka KS and then moved to Superior. From Superior the family moved to Palisade Nebraska where he started school. At age 10 Lawrence worked at a barber shop in Palisade shining shoes, sweeping floors and cleaning tubs. On a Saturday he would make as much as .10 cents per shoe shine. At age 15 his parents went to Superior and he and his sister stayed with his half brothers, Albert and John. His sister Hazel, brother Vincent and his father George moved to Lincoln and the family separated with his mother, Bertha going back to Superior. He later moved to Benkleman and met Annie Erickson while in the 11th Grade and worked as a mechanic for a man by the name of Ed Abuel at Stevenson's Ford garage who paid for his school and room and board. Annie and he went to Wray Colorado to get married in 1927 and returned to Benkleman. He was about to be laid off from work due to the depression and Annie and Lawrence moved to Hegler in 1932.In 1933 they moved to Hood River, Oregon.


      BURIAL: Skyline Memorial - Portland
    Person ID I10888  7B William Bassett of Cross Plains, Indiana
    Last Modified 28 Nov 2007 

    Father George Washington Westley Miller,   b. 28 Feb 1878, Kirkwood, Warren, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Nov 1958, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Mother Bertha Jerina Larson,   b. 28 Feb 1871, Stavenger, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Dec 1948, Ordnance, Hermiston, Oregon, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Family ID F5176  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Annie Vergie Erickson 
    Family ID F5183  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S212] Miller FTM File, Barton Ross Miller, (Family Tree Maker).