ROCK SPRINGS - Funeral services for Rock Springs resident Afton McMillan, 81, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, March 4, at Fox Funeral Home of Rock Springs by Bishop Blaine Johnson. Entombment will be in Rock Springs Municipal Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today, March 3; and one hour prior to service-time on Friday.
The family will receive friends at the family home, 1023 Marchant, Rock Springs.
She died Feb. 28, 2005, at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County in Rock Springs, after a short illness.
Born July 25, 1923, in Ogden, Utah, she was the daughter of George and Mattie (Whittaker) Baxter; attended schools in Reliance; and graduated from Reliance High School in 1941.
She then went to Warm Springs, Ga., and spent three years at the polio clinic there; undergoing ankle surgery and having the opportunity to have Christmas dinner with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
During World War II, she was a fingerprinter at Hill Field, near Ogden.
On Sept. 11, 1947, she married Ronald McMillan.
Employed as a clerk at Sears, she retired after 15 years of service.
She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, several local women's clubs, the Eagles Auxiliary and Veterans of Foreign Wars; and enjoyed spending summers in Pinedale with her family and friends.
Survivors include her husband of 57 years and son, Dennis McMillan, and his companion of Rock Springs; and a brother-in-law.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Louis.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today, March 3; and one hour prior to service-time on Friday.
The family will receive friends at the family home, 1023 Marchant, Rock Springs.
She died Feb. 28, 2005, at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County in Rock Springs, after a short illness.
Born July 25, 1923, in Ogden, Utah, she was the daughter of George and Mattie (Whittaker) Baxter; attended schools in Reliance; and graduated from Reliance High School in 1941.
She then went to Warm Springs, Ga., and spent three years at the polio clinic there; undergoing ankle surgery and having the opportunity to have Christmas dinner with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
During World War II, she was a fingerprinter at Hill Field, near Ogden.
On Sept. 11, 1947, she married Ronald McMillan.
Employed as a clerk at Sears, she retired after 15 years of service.
She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, several local women's clubs, the Eagles Auxiliary and Veterans of Foreign Wars; and enjoyed spending summers in Pinedale with her family and friends.
Survivors include her husband of 57 years and son, Dennis McMillan, and his companion of Rock Springs; and a brother-in-law.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Louis.
ROCK SPRINGS - Funeral services for Rock Springs resident Afton McMillan, 81, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, March 4, at Fox Funeral Home of Rock Springs by Bishop Blaine Johnson. Entombment will be in Rock Springs Municipal Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today, March 3; and one hour prior to service-time on Friday.
The family will receive friends at the family home, 1023 Marchant, Rock Springs.
She died Feb. 28, 2005, at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County in Rock Springs, after a short illness.
Born July 25, 1923, in Ogden, Utah, she was the daughter of George and Mattie (Whittaker) Baxter; attended schools in Reliance; and graduated from Reliance High School in 1941.
She then went to Warm Springs, Ga., and spent three years at the polio clinic there; undergoing ankle surgery and having the opportunity to have Christmas dinner with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
During World War II, she was a fingerprinter at Hill Field, near Ogden.
On Sept. 11, 1947, she married Ronald McMillan.
Employed as a clerk at Sears, she retired after 15 years of service.
She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, several local women's clubs, the Eagles Auxiliary and Veterans of Foreign Wars; and enjoyed spending summers in Pinedale with her family and friends.
Survivors include her husband of 57 years and son, Dennis McMillan, and his companion of Rock Springs; and a brother-in-law.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Louis.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today, March 3; and one hour prior to service-time on Friday.
The family will receive friends at the family home, 1023 Marchant, Rock Springs.
She died Feb. 28, 2005, at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County in Rock Springs, after a short illness.
Born July 25, 1923, in Ogden, Utah, she was the daughter of George and Mattie (Whittaker) Baxter; attended schools in Reliance; and graduated from Reliance High School in 1941.
She then went to Warm Springs, Ga., and spent three years at the polio clinic there; undergoing ankle surgery and having the opportunity to have Christmas dinner with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
During World War II, she was a fingerprinter at Hill Field, near Ogden.
On Sept. 11, 1947, she married Ronald McMillan.
Employed as a clerk at Sears, she retired after 15 years of service.
She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, several local women's clubs, the Eagles Auxiliary and Veterans of Foreign Wars; and enjoyed spending summers in Pinedale with her family and friends.
Survivors include her husband of 57 years and son, Dennis McMillan, and his companion of Rock Springs; and a brother-in-law.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Louis.
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