Richard Miller Obituary

Happy New Years Dad!!

Please make 2012 a better year for mom and I! Also please please keep us HEALTHY and let any test results come back ok. Let us make a new start and be happy with ourselves, be strong, try to enjoy life, not let others bring us down, forgive and not hold grudges. Please help me improve my weaknesses and make more people be thoughtful, caring and show more concern and love of others.

Don't let it be the end of the world or have any major disasters happen I'm still trying to be happy in this life. =)

Happy New Year Dad!
Please make it a Happy Healthy One for us!!

Love Always & Forever!
Your daughter (pumpkin) Vicki!
I Miss you Dad!

Wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas Dad!!

I love and miss you soo much, I miss shopping for you and going shopping with you for mom! Also the wreath you made is giving me a hard time again this year!! I now understand why you would get soo frustrated when bulbs would go out! LoL But I promise somehow I will get it to light up again! XOXO

Christmas just doesn't seem the same anymore - hope you like the decorations. I'm trying! =)

Dad I miss you so much and it's been 2 years today!
It still hurts just as bad especially with Christmas on the way.

It all seems like a bad dream but it's unfortunately true,
you will be spending Christmas from now on up with God and we will be down her always missing you!

Since you have been gone, there has been so many challenges that we have had to trudge through.
We have accomplished a lot but it has been very difficult without you.

Please give us the strength to keep going and get through all of it.
So we can finally try to enjoy life, relax and then get to sit,

Most of all please keep us both HEATHLY and PROTECT us too.
Let us enjoy 2012 and not feel so overwhelmed and blue.

I miss giving you dad a BIG HUG and KISS.
Now I can only blow them up to the clouds in the sky, think back and reminisce.

Thank you for loving me unconditionally in every way.
I will always love you dad and in my heart you will ALWAYS FOREVER stay!!

I know that was you dad when I heard the music playing "lalalala" (I think from the bell on the door)- please keep giving me the signs that you are around and with us!!

Love You Always Vicki XOXO

Happy Thanksgiving Dad!!

I hope your having some turkey up there with the rest of the family! I will miss you tasting the food while mom cooks the turkey and I help with the dressing. Also when i make my sweet potatoes,zuchini boats, and devil eggs. Holidays are just not the same without you! But I am Thankful this holiday for my family and friends. I am also thankful that God didn't take you right away and gave us 2 years with you. I am also thankful for our health, please keep us all healthy and any test results we may have come back ok. Mom has come down with a cold -please make her better so she can enjoy the holiday. Can't believe I turned 40 this year! It's so depressing, since my life keeps going in different directions. So I thought I would have a party/reunion with old friends from Lindop. I wish you were here to celebrate with me! But acutually I do believe you were -I was on my cell phone calling my cc company and all of a sudden the TV volume kept going up! Thought it was sugar laying on the remote but when I looked, both remotes were sitting on the table pointed at the TV (no one touching it!!)and I saw the volume display on the TV and go up and get louder! I am hoping that was you wishing me a Happy Birthday and a great party! I really wish you were here! Hopefully you will be with me on Monday with the last chance to win the jackpot -it would certainly help with just having this party!! Please bring me some luck! =) I'll be thinking of you this weekend while I put up the Christmas decorations. I really need u here to tell me where they should all go! The weather is going to be nice so going to get it up before its gets too cold again!! Supose to be a bad winter but you would be so proud hopefully we are prepared. So much is started to come together like the basement! Just need to start sorting, organzing and decluttering! We have only a couple weeks to finish so we can Christmas at our house! I Love you with all my heart! Happy Thanksgiving Dad! Keep us healthly, and safe! XOXO

Happy 71st Birthday Dad!! 9/8/11

I can't believe this is the second birthday that you are not here. I miss giving you a special gift and card for your birthday. Just can't get use to giving you only flowers now. Well I hope you liked the red roses and birthday balloon that I left for you today (9/8/11). Thank you so much for the sign - the rainbow was beautiful! Mom will also will never forget the cross in the sky when we went to see Jerry. She knew it was from you to reassure us that you are OK and in God's care. Please keep letting us know you are with us and keep us HEATHLY and SAFE. We still have so much to do since you have been gone. Basement is getting there but still not done. Trailer roof and windows have been replaced but now soon we will have to close for the season. I'm sorry we havent't had the 47 Chevy out more. I did charge the battery today and it sounded great when she started. We are hoping next summer to have her out more and enjoy the car shows. I miss you so much and still need your advice and have so many unanswered questions. I know you are probably saying we should of paid more attention when you were here -and you are soo right. But I hope you are proud of what we have done and learned on our own. Believe it or not a lot of things you taught me did soak in and are being applied! So thank you for everything you have taught me -it has come in handy! Mom misses you so much and hearing her cry all the time cause she misses you just breaks my heart. I hope once the stuff gets done maybe she can get out and get in touch with some friends -she is so lonely with no one calling or coming over. She's always thinking and taking care of everyone else just wish she would think and take care of herself for once. So please give us the STRENGTH to get through all the problems and projects so we could finally relax and enjoy life.

Your daughter, Vicki
Again, Happy Birthday Dad!!
Love You So Much!

I pray to you every night -You will be in my Heart Always & Forever Dad!! XOXO

Happy Father's Day Dad!

Can't believe it's the second Father's Day without you. Even though it's the second it still hurts as bad as the first. Just doesn't seems possible -I think I'm still in denial and I just don't want to believe that you are really gone. There has been so much that has been happening I wish you were here to help me and mom through it all. I have learned so much and am so very thankful for everything you have taught me. I wish you were here because today is your day we would always spend together. You are the best dad anyone could ever have and I appreciated all of you knowledge and advice you had ever given me. I may not have always liked it but in the end you were always right! Thank you for teaching me the correct ways of doing things in life it has come in handy! I know you would be so proud of me and the many situations I have had to handle so far (my truck being just one of them!). I have also takin your advice and went for a colonoscopy. It was hard to do but I kept thinking of everything you went through and I'm so glad I did. (Actually you were right it really wasn't that bad!!) It's been alot of work this year but so far me and mom got the trailer open and your car running but still working on finishing the basement. I believe all the little signs are you letting us know you are with us. I hope you will always stay with us (especially next weekend when mom drives your Chevy to Gears and Ears)It's going to be hard going there without you. Please keep us healthy and safe.
I love you with all my heart and sending all my love to you up in heaven on this Father's Day. Thanks for being such a great dad.

I will Love you Always and Forever Dad XOXO,

Happy Father's Day!

Vicki <3

Happy New Year's Dad!

I have loved & missed you all year long.
I look at your picture and try to be strong.

The memories will be with me always & forever.
All the good times we had, will I forget..O No NEVER!

2011 is here and now for a new start.
I'm sure it will be hard to do, but you will always be in my heart.

No more sad tears or thoughts in my mind.
Time to be happy and remember you will always be one of a kind.

Life is to short for grudges, arguments, or worries of everyday.
Time to live life to the fullest cause it could be suddenly taken away.

I hope you will be our angel and watch us from up in heaven.
Please protect us, keep us close, happy & most of all HEALTHY everyday.. 24/7.

It would be nice if you could occasionally give us a sign.
So we both know you are OK and give us peace of mind.

Please lift any dark clouds that may form over our heads.
Keep it clear and bright with even a rainbow instead!

It's time to make 2011 a life of anew.
We will be strong together and will ALWAYS be thinking of you!!

Happy New Year's Dad! Mom and I (and sugar too!) Miss You! Please make 2011 a better year for all of us! =)
I Love YOU!


CHEERS to 2011 starting life over again, getting all our goals accomplished and to start enjoying life and not to hold grudges or stress so much on things we cannot change!

HERE is to us: to have all the Happiness, Love, and Most of all Good Health for all the years to come.

Also CHEERS to having the best parents in the world. Dad I will always miss you and I will always be your pumpkin. We had such a close bond that could never be broken. Even though you will always be in my heart. I feel apart of it is broken with you gone. Thank you for all the love you gave me. There is nothing that will ever be stronger.

It has been a very tough year for mom & I, but we made it through and we will keep making it with the strength you showed us and for what we have for each other for the years to come.
We need to try to start enjoying life now. Thank you for me to have her in my life and please keep her safe and healthy, she is all I have left who truely loves me unconditinally.

Happy New Year's 2011!!
Love Always & Forever.
Your daughter,Vicki

P.S. Please give the rest of the family and friends up there my love. xoxo

Me & Mom Wish you a Merry Christmas Dad! =)

Well Christmas was on Saturday and this Christmas was pretty hard without you! I still can't believe you have been gone a year already! It was very lonely Christmas shopping for mom without you. So I hope you like the gifts I got for her from you, I know she did! (Actually I really think you were helping me out with that from up above!! Especially with the charm!) I also know you were with me this year to help me fix the wreathes you made. I was so upset to see a string of lights out on 2 of them. It was so important to me to have them all hung and working this year. So I went to Ace to get more bulbs and the owner was so thoughtful to try and help me to get them working, but he wanted to keep them and restring new lights (thinking there was a short in the string). But I could not let them out of my sight or have him mess with all your hard work you did. So I knew what I had to do -take the time and do it right! Go through each bulb (Just like you use to do -I know how much you disliked it!! -Now I know why!!) Which I did and now they work and look beautiful!! =)

Dad, it was a tearful Christmas for me and mom because you were not here to celebrate and open gifts with us. I hope you had a nice Chrismas in heaven with everyone up there. But never forget about us down here, that will be loving and missing you forever.

Merry Christmas Dad, mom and I love you with all our hearts! XOXO

Your daughter Vicki & wife Betty.

P.S. I hope you have been proud of everything I have done. You have given us alot of work to do! If it's not programming the garage door remotes it's replacing the timer for the lights. So many things have not been working right and normally you would be doing all of it cause I would have no idea how to fix. But with the determinated I got from you, I did it and so proud of myself and hope you are too. We made it through alot so far -it would be great if we could get alittle bit of a break now! =)
<3 Vicki

On December 20, 2009 I lost my dad & part of my heart.
One year later & the tears still want to start.

Hoping you could hold on with all your might.
You were so strong & put up such a fight.

While waiting for help mom & I held you tight.
But God had other plans & took you that night.

I will never forget laying your limp body on the floor.
An holding your head when help came to the door.

I thank God for letting mom & I hold you til the end.
Now your starting your new journey will God as your friend.

It was the hardest day for us both & will never be forgotten.
We feel so empty at times but our love for you will never be stoppin.

I hope you are enjoying seeing all your friends, mom & most of all your dad.
Just know we are here missing you & it makes us real sad.

The only thing that comforts me is now your out of pain.
Hoping you will watch over us til we all meet again.

I Love you Dad!
Can't believe you have been gone a year already.

You will always be in my heart!
Love Forever...Vicki XOXO

Dad,

I can't believe you have been gone 1 year today -it doesn't seem possible. I think I'm still in denial -I just don't want to believe you are really gone. But in reality it is true and I have such bad memories of this day that I will never forget. From the hours before it happened (scared to fall asleep because I needed to hear you if you needed me -but so tired with no sleep relief). To the last minutes of me and mom holding you in the chair waiting for someone to come help us, to me laying your limp body on the floor after I believe we had just lost you, with still holding your head waiting for the paramedics to come and then to deal with the long ride to the hospital. All of these memories have left a scar on my heart. I will never forget any of them! I feel very bitter about so many different things that had happened. But doing my best to try and overcome them -but will definally never forget! I was very mad at God for taking you away from me and not letting you be here to walk me down the aisle (if I ever got married) and be a grandpa to any of my kids that I might have had, to help me get through everyday life with all of your great knowledge and the only person who truely loved me unconditionally, God has taken away from me.

I'm not sure what God's purpose of taking you early would be, but I also have to thank him for giving me 2 yrs with you after you were diagnosed with stage 4 and one month of me living back at home taking care of you and most of all having me and mom on either side of you while you left us. It was the most traumatic thing I've been through so far in life but I would never leave you -family stays together. I was going to be by your side while you were leaving us to go onto your next journey no matter how bad it hurts cause I know how scared you were and how you needed and wanted all of your family with you. Losing you and my relationship with my ex fiance was alot to handle at one time. Now I need to start life over once again. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever find such a relationship like yours and moms -one that the love is just so strong for each other and will take care of one another throughout the years.

I love mom so much too and I will take care of her like you wanted. She misses you so much and sometimes just cries all day. I've been strong so we both don't fall apart crying but it breaks my heart even more to see and hear how she talks about missing you so, that I have to leave the room so I can breakdown by myself. Please watch over us and give us the strength to move forward with life. You will always be loved and in our hearts forever and most of all never forgotten.

Love you Dad! (1st year)
Your daughter Vicki xoxo

Happy Thanksgiving Dad!
I miss you so much! This is the first Thanksgiving without you and it just doesn't seem the same. I miss you watching TV while me and mom were always cooking and making the stuffing together & having you be the taster for the different dishes I would make. Just like the devil eggs you loved and that I made every Easter for you -just to your liking! =)

I do want to give thanks today to God for keeping you with me for 2 years after you were diagnosed. I treasured and valued everyday we had together and I know I was there for you no matter how far away I lived or how busy my life was, nothing and nobody was going to keep me from being there with you by your side, taking care of you, showing you love when you needed it the most from your family throughout the whole way through til the end. Sometimes I feel like I failed cause I couldn't cure you! =(

Me & mom really miss you this holiday & think about you everyday & you will be in my heart forever. I hope you got to see your dad (I know how long you have missed him) & Grandma Rose again with all of the rest of the family and friends that are gone. Just know I am now here missing you! You have given mom & I a lot of challenges since you have been gone! We are doing our best to handle them and have made some accomplishments (roof in Wisc, drainage system) but there are still so many more that needs to be completed (basement, upstairs etc etc). It has been so overwhelming but we are doing our best & hope you would be proud of that. I have always appreciated everything you have done for us but now since your gone and I have to learn and figure things out on my own all the things you use to do has now given me a greater appreciation for all of the work and accomplishments you have done for us throughout life.

It was really difficult hanging the beautiful wreaths you made without you. It was always our tradition to do the decorations/tree together and this year was the hardest. So many memories filled my head. I don't think Christmas will ever be the same. Hope you like the decorations I did outside, just can't seem to do the inside and put the tree up-still hurts too much!

Please keep us healthy & safe and give us the strength to get through everything we have to accomplish & also through next month with the Christmas holidays, especially mom you were her other half & it breaks my heart everytime I see her cry cause she misses you so much.

Happy Thanksgiving Dad!
I Love You & will miss you forever!
XOXO
Your Daughter Vicki

I wanted to say Happy Birthday Dad and give you a big hug and kiss.
My strong & loving father for I shall ALWAYS miss.

I'm sending a birthday wish to you way up in the sky,
this is the first birthday without you and it makes me want to cry.

Wish you would come back to us,
we love you so much you see
but I guess God had other plans and wanted to take you away from me.

Your up in heaven now and that's where you will forever stay.
Doesn't matter what I do,I could never change God's way.

So instead I look back on the memories and in my heart is where you will always be.
I just need to try to remember you are no longer in pain and finally cancer free.

I love you so much dad!
I will miss you now and forever!

Love always your little pumpkin,
Vicki xoxo

Please watch over us and keep us strong, safe & healthy.

I hope you were extremely proud of mom with driving the street rod to the Gears & Ears show in June! (I know I was!)She did a great job! She said she felt you help and guide her all the way! It was so hard being there without you. But I know you were watching and also helped stop the rain until we got to the grounds and got the car inside! It was such an honor to receive the plaque from the car club (MSRA) in memory of you and to also get the t-shirts with your car on it. I wish you could of seen how they turned out, since you picked out the picture of your car to put on them. I know with more driving practice she will be a pro and hopefully take over where you left off with your pride and joy. =)xoxo

Its been 6 mos since your gone dad, and its seems like just yesterday. I cant think too often of you being gone because the thoughts are devestating.I miss you more then words could ever say. I wish you would of stayed, but the pain of watching you like that was oftem more than i could handle. I hope your at peace,and pain free. No one deserves to go thru what you did. Between you and your cancer, and your grand daughter nikkole with her cancer, i will fight for the cure so no one else will have to endure this horrible disease. I will love and miss you forever, Love Chris...

Dear Betty, Christine, Vicki and family,
I was sorry to hear of the passing of Rich. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
With my deepest sympathy,

Dad,
I am going to miss you so much. You were my entire world and now I have to face it without you. I want to thank you for loving me as much as you did. I know I will never have a love that is stronger than what we had for each other as a daughter and her father. I will miss all of your wisdom and advice that you have given me over the years and I will miss asking you for it in the future. I wish I had listened to you more because you always ended up being right! I also wish you could of seen me be happy, been there to walk me down the aisle and have a family of my own. But that wasn't meant to be right now and my place was here to be with you thoughout it all and I'm very thankful I got to be home with you and hold you in my arms til the end. It is something I will never forget and it was the hardest thing I have EVER been through in life. But I know you will be watching over us and will be my guardian angel throughout life's situations. I am sure eventually we will be strong and in time we will heal but the memories and the love will NEVER be forgotten. You will ALWAYS be in my heart.
Merry Christmas Dad! It will never be the same without both of us putting up the decorations together but I will try and do the best I can with everything you have ever taught me. I will also take care and protect mom as you requested.

I Love You Dad, Always & Forever....
Your Daughter Vicki XOXOXOXO

Our thoughts and prayers are with you all. While Richard is at peace now, grieving his loss -- especially at this time of year -- is so hard. May you be comforted by all the love surrounding you.

Our sincere sympathies and condolences go out to the Miller and Thomasino families on the loss of Mr. Miller. May you all be comforted by knowing that he is now at peace and at rest, and his love and memory will always be with you. Jan and Bob Roeder and family

I will never forget camping at Lakeland with you and the family, Mr. Miller and getting in trouble for staying out way after curfew cause I met a cute boy I couldn't leave at the campfire. I will never forget you standing at the fence waiting for me and Vicki to come up the hill and hearing you yell, "March, young ladies!" I do not think I have ever been as afraid of another person's father as I was of you that night. Thanks for looking out for me, and for letting me to be Vicki's friend even during my "bad" years...I will really miss you.

Ricki Salzbrunn

Sincere condolences, Rich's younger days during high school and Navy, are times I will not forget. Bob Palucki

We were sorry to hear about the loss to your family. Rich always had a smile on his face and a kind word to say. He will be missed by all. My families prayers are with all of you.

Sincere condolences, Rich's younger days in high school and Navy, are times I will not forget. Bob Palucki

Betty,I will hurt and cry with you for your terrible loss as i will also laugh and smile in time with you, as you lovingly talk about your prince.

please accept our condolences,we arte very sorry for your loss.
Dee and Les MIller

Goodby old friend you will be remembered
Eddie and Diane Hurter