MILLER, Paul D. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

ATTICA, Ind. – Paul D. Miller, 56, of the Independence community on Attica Route 2, died about six and a half hours after being injured in a two-vehicle accident on Riverside Road two miles north of Attica. State Police report the accident occurred at 4:12 p.m. Monday when a pick-up truck driven by Walter E. Johnson of Williamsport reportedly crossed the center line and struck the Miller auto. Both men were taken to Home Hospital in Lafayette where Mr. Miller died about 10:50 p.m. Johnson had a broken jaw and face and leg lacerations. He is in satisfactory condition today, according to a hospital spokesman. Mr. Miller was born May 20, 1918, in Casey, Ill., the son of Vaughn and Maude Lashbrook Miller. He had formerly lived in the West Point area and had moved to Independence about 25 years ago. On April 9, 1949, in Michigan City, he married Joan Martin, who survives. He attended school at Wingate and was an engineer of power house at Harrison Steel Castings Company in Attica for the past 23 years. He was a veteran of World War II, having served in the Air Force. He attended the Methodist Church. Other survivors include his mother of Idaville, Ill.; three daughters, Mrs. Steve (Joyce) Ranson of Attica, Mrs. Mark (Patty) Campbell of Independence and Mrs. Dave (Vaula) Dinwiddie of Lafayette; three sisters. Mrs. John Cooper of Covington, Mrs. Hazel Scott of Idaville and Mrs. Fairy Smith of Logansport; five brothers, Kenneth of St. Louis, Mo., Jack of West Point, Oscar of Lafayette, and Wayne and James, both of Idaville; and four grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Dale Maus Funeral Home with the Rev. John Covely officiating. Friends will be received at the funeral home from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. – jlr