Leonard Theodore Miller, son of Leonard Harrison Miller and Pauline
     Keitel Miller, was born September 24, 1917 in Alva, Oklahoma. He moved
     to Kiowa, Kansas in August 1948 when he and Mary Kathleen Kaiser, born
     January 4, 1927, daughter of John George Kaiser and Carrie Burlesons
     Kaiser, were married at Augusta, Kansas, August 6, 1948.
       Leonard graduated from Kiowa High School in 1939 and attended the
     Wichita Business College. He was among the first in the Mulberry Center
     Neighborhood to go into the service during World War II in January of
     1942. He spent 29 months overseas, 14 of those in England with the 8th
     and 9th Air Force and 15 months on the European Continent and was
     discharged in October 1945. Before the war, he helped haul gravel for
     construction to build the Salt Plains Dam, Canton Lake Dam, and hard
     surface many of the state highways in this area. He followed the harvest
     into the Dakotas with the pull type combines and tractors before the
     war, and was among the first with priority to buy one of the new self=
     propelled combines, after the war, to continue custom cutting.
       Mary graduated from Kiowa High School in 1946 and attended nurses
     training in Wichita at the St. Joseph Hospital for 1 year. Worked at
     Achenbach Hospital-Clinic until whe was married. She has worked at the
     Kiowa Hispital-Clinic since 1954.
       Leonard is a life member of the VFW and belongs to the American Legion.
     Mary belongs to the VFW auxiliary and they both belong to the United
     Methodist Church. They have 2 children: Leonard Gregory (Greg) Miller 
     born February 3, 1951 and Mrs. Dennis (Shirley Joan) Christensen born
     January 29, 1954, and one granddaughter, Renee Dawn Christensen, born
     November 26, 1977.   
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 327 
     Submitted by: Mary Kaiser Miller