JACKSON -- Memorial service for Margaret Miltenberger of Columbia, formerly of Jackson, was held Tuesday at First Presbyterian Church in Kennett. The Rev. Allen Oakley officiated, with burial in Memorial Gardens at Kennett.
McDaniel Funeral Home at Kennett was in charge of arrangements.
Miltenberger, 69, died Monday, June 8, 1992, at the University of Missouri-Columbia Medical Center.
She was born July 23, 1922, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Odus and Ethel Litzelfelner. She and Paul C. Miltenberger were married May 15, 1950, at Kennett.
Miltenberger graduated from Missouri Baptist Hospital School of Nursing in St. Louis in 1944, and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
The Miltenbergers lived in Kennett 41 years. She was an ordained elder of First Presbyterian Church there.
Survivors include her husband; two sons, Christopher and Lewis Miltenberger of Dallas, Texas; three daughters, Jan Fewell of Columbia, Barbara Miltenberger of Jefferson City, Beth Miltenberger of Nashville, Tenn.; four brothers, Ralph Litzelfelner of Bald Knob, Ark., Jim and Jack Litzelfelner of Jackson, Joe Litzelfelner of Kennett; six sisters, O'Deen Weir of Macomb, Ill., Adon Wilson of Santa Ana, Calif., Kay Gebhard of Rochester Hills, Mich., Rose Mary Bradsher of Bartlett, Tenn., Phyllis Vickrey of Jackson, Barbara Gorski of Olivette, and four grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a son and brother.
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