Allen Franklin Miller ,74, of Elyria, Nebraska died March 13, 2019 at Lakeview Nursing Home in Grand Island, Nebraska.
Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at Hitchcock Funeral Home in Burwell, Nebraska. Burial will be in the Brewster Cemetery at Brewster, Nebraska. Pastor Alan Petersen will officiate. Visitation will be Monday from 5- 7 p.m. at Hitchcock Funeral Home.
Allen was born to Frank and Vava Miller Doty (Fox) on June 19, 1944. He grew up around Burwell and Taylor. He also lived in Brewster awhile where his mom and dad ran the café. He attended country school and then went to school in Burwell where he attended until his sophomore year. Allen moved to Thedford, Nebraska and worked on a ranch, at that time he met Lilli Ann Morris and they were married in June of 1962. To this union two children were born. Dale Leroy and Gloria Ann.
Allen worked for John Morris at the truck stop in Thedford and John taught him to drive a truck. He hauled his first load of cattle to Omaha at the age of 17. Allen and Lilli Ann later divorced and he went to work on the Glenelder Dam in Beloit Kansas. He also worked on the canal in Johnstown. Allen and his cousin Robert worked together in a Beet field in Gering, Nebraska until they discovered that they were pulling the beets instead of weeds. Allen went to work at the ordinance plant in Grand Island working on the line and later decided driving truck was his calling.
He met Sandy Baxter in the summer of ‘67 at a dance in Broken Bow where she was playing in a band. They were married December 15, 1967 in Dunning, Nebraska and also received a daughter Tammy with the marriage. Wayne was born on July 6, 1971. They moved to North Loup and he continued to work at the ordinance plant. Later he bought a gravel truck and hauled gravel. He rode many miles in the truck with his dad before he even started school. Allen always laughed because they were barley on the road and Wayne wanted to stop and get a hamburger in North Loup. Later he bought a truck and started hauling cattle. He worked with Spike Welton, Norris Jones and Bud Knight just to name a few. He later loaded for his brother Howard his son Wayne and good friend Doug Hanks. They had a lot of laughs and really enjoyed trucking together, he was very proud of the business he built and always took care of the cattle.
Allen was baptized on March 12, 2019 at Lakeview Care Center with his family and hospice care nurses and pastor Jay to witness this glorious day he took Jesus as his savior.
He leaves to mourn his passing his wife Sandy Miller of Ord, Nebraska. His son Dale Miller of Wyoming, grandkids Amber Malcom and husband Kade and great granddaughter Melody of Clarinda Iowa, Wade Miller of Clarinda, Iowa and Cheyenne Bradford and husband Jack of Fairbanks Alaska, a granddaughter Cheree Crapson and two great granddaughters of Bellevue, Nebraska. His son and longtime trucking companion Wayne Miller of Elyria, Nebraska and grandkids Tyler Miller or Broken Bow, Nebraska, Heather Preister and husband Drew of Omaha, Nebraska and Trystyn Lynn Miller of Ainsworth, Nebraska, a daughter, Tammy Copsey and husband Dean of Burwell, Nebraska. His Brother and sister-in-law, Howard and Linda Miller of Hastings Nebraska and a sister-in-law Pat Miller of Ord, Nebraska and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
He was proceeded in death by his parents, two brothers Alvin and Joe and a daughter Gloria Ann and step dad Bill Doty, father-in-law, Burl Baxter and mother-in-law Dorothy Baxter.
Memorials are suggested to Asera Care Hospice.
