In Memory Of
Richard Thomas Mills
1925
2013
Richard Thomas Mills
September 19, 1925 — July 5, 2013
Richard T. (Dick) Mills was born Sept. 19, 1925 in Osceola, Nebraska, the son of Milton A. and Florence Lees Mills.
He graduated from the local high school in 1943, attended the University of Nebraska for one semester and then was accepted into the Navy V-12 NROTC officers' training program in March, 1944. After four semesters at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana and three at the University of Michigan, he graduated June, 1946. Subsequently he spent a year on a minesweeper before being discharged.
In September, 1947 Dick began a 7-year odyssey as a small town newspaper advertising man, living in Beatrice and Columbus, Nebraska and Blytheville, Arkansas and Albion, Nebraska. While in Arkansas he married Dorothy Jo Royse in August, 1949.
In 1954 they moved from Nebraska to Denver where he was employed as a field representative for General Motors Acceptance Corp, the company then transferring him to Casper in 1957. Two years later he resigned to go to work as a loan officer for Wyoming Production Credit Association, and in 1974 resigned from the PCA to join Provident Federal Savings & Loan Association as a mortgage loan officer from which he retired in 1988.
His interests included membership in the local Toastmasters Club, Rotary, golf, tennis, fishing and bird hunting.
He was predeceased by his wife and one brother, Robert Mills. Survivors include two other brothers, Alex Mills of Osceola, Nebraska, and John Mills of Greeley, Colorado. He is also survived by his two children Tom and Pam Mills (Jim Miller) of Casper, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Many will miss Dick's quick, rapier-like wit and his insightful commentary—although that commentary would be described as not insightful but inciteful [Brit.] in some circles. His love of words and their correct usage, that is, syntax, grammar, and spelling remained a passion of his until the end. He was quick to correct hospital staff, including physicians and nurses, even in the final days. Most certainly, he was distraught by our language's disintegration. Dick Mills, a vanishing breed: A true wordsmith.
A celebration of his life will be held at the Paradise Valley Country Club at 3:30p.m. on August 10th, 2013. Dick and Dorothy spent many days there playing golf and enjoying the "good life." Donations in his memory can be made to the Casper Rotary Club, P.O. Box 496, Casper, WY 82602; Meals on Wheels, 1760 E. 12th St., Casper, WY 82601; Platte River Trails Trust, 1775 W. First St., Casper WY 82601; and the Wounded Warrior Project, www.woundedwarriorproject.org.
He graduated from the local high school in 1943, attended the University of Nebraska for one semester and then was accepted into the Navy V-12 NROTC officers' training program in March, 1944. After four semesters at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana and three at the University of Michigan, he graduated June, 1946. Subsequently he spent a year on a minesweeper before being discharged.
In September, 1947 Dick began a 7-year odyssey as a small town newspaper advertising man, living in Beatrice and Columbus, Nebraska and Blytheville, Arkansas and Albion, Nebraska. While in Arkansas he married Dorothy Jo Royse in August, 1949.
In 1954 they moved from Nebraska to Denver where he was employed as a field representative for General Motors Acceptance Corp, the company then transferring him to Casper in 1957. Two years later he resigned to go to work as a loan officer for Wyoming Production Credit Association, and in 1974 resigned from the PCA to join Provident Federal Savings & Loan Association as a mortgage loan officer from which he retired in 1988.
His interests included membership in the local Toastmasters Club, Rotary, golf, tennis, fishing and bird hunting.
He was predeceased by his wife and one brother, Robert Mills. Survivors include two other brothers, Alex Mills of Osceola, Nebraska, and John Mills of Greeley, Colorado. He is also survived by his two children Tom and Pam Mills (Jim Miller) of Casper, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Many will miss Dick's quick, rapier-like wit and his insightful commentary—although that commentary would be described as not insightful but inciteful [Brit.] in some circles. His love of words and their correct usage, that is, syntax, grammar, and spelling remained a passion of his until the end. He was quick to correct hospital staff, including physicians and nurses, even in the final days. Most certainly, he was distraught by our language's disintegration. Dick Mills, a vanishing breed: A true wordsmith.
A celebration of his life will be held at the Paradise Valley Country Club at 3:30p.m. on August 10th, 2013. Dick and Dorothy spent many days there playing golf and enjoying the "good life." Donations in his memory can be made to the Casper Rotary Club, P.O. Box 496, Casper, WY 82602; Meals on Wheels, 1760 E. 12th St., Casper, WY 82601; Platte River Trails Trust, 1775 W. First St., Casper WY 82601; and the Wounded Warrior Project, www.woundedwarriorproject.org.
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