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Edith I. McMillan

Written on September 2, 2019 by Staff Reporter

Categories: Obituaries Archive 2019, Wabash County

 

Edith I. McMillan, 92, Wabash, passed away at 1:15 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019, at Rolling Meadow Health and Rehabilitation in LaFontaine.

She was born on Jan. 27, 1927, in Huntington County, Indiana, to the late Mason and Ora (Bowler) Keiffer. She married Warren T. McMillan on Dec. 20, 1946.

She was the 1945 valedictorian of her graduating class at Banquo High School. After high school, she attended Fort Wayne International Business College for two years. She was a member of the Banquo Christian Church, the VFW Wabash Post 286 Auxiliary and the LaFontaine Eastern Star 301.

Edith McMillan is survived by one son, Albert McMillan, of Wabash; four daughters: Crystal (Ronald Hartley) Coons, of Hartford City; Evelyn Roberts, of Fort Wayne; and Ellen (Kevin) Claytor, of Lincolnville; one sister, Deloris Zuber, of Virginia; eight grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Warren, two daughters, one son, one step-daughter, three brothers and one sister.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 5, at McDonald Funeral Home, LaFontaine Chapel, 104 South Main Street, LaFontaine, IN 46940. Burial will follow at Gardens of Memory in Marion.

Friends and family may call from 4-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 4, at the funeral home.

Preferred memorials are to the Juvenile Diabetes Association, www.jdrf.org.

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