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Who's Who at Des Moines Meeting Room, IA

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McMillan family
==McMillan family==
* Thomas McMillan '''+1917-1970+1976''' (b. 1883 Co. Antrim, Ireland - d. 1978 San Leandro, Alameda Co., [[California|CA]]) +1970's . By 1976, they had moved to the Bay Area of San Leandro, CA, with his daughtergranddaughter. Lived 1910 @ St. Paul, Ramsey, MN. Strong little guy who worked in an iron factory, and was saved and initially became a Baptist pastor, and went up to Minneapolis to do some preaching and there was a cute gal playing the organ, named Helen Leonard. He built a house for her in Des Moines, and ordered a Sears & Roebuck house, and the nearest railhead was in Minnesota, and he made several trips with a horse and wagon to bring the materials to Des Moines, to E. 14th St., to build this house. One of his descendants married a president of the Gideons in 1975 or 1976. Did itinerant work with C.H. Brown for many years. Tom McMillan did ministry at Hamer Bay, and known to walk the length of the dock on his hands, even in his older ago, as did Clarence Lundin II. * Helen Bertha Leonard McMillan '''+1917-1970+''' (b. 1884 [[Minnesota|MN]] - d. 1976 Alameda Co., CA). Daughter of Adolph Freidrich Leonard (b. 1839 [[Germany]] - d. 1924 Redwood Falls, Redwood, [[Minnesota|MN]]) & Bertha Neumann Leonard (b. 1849 Germany - d. 1946 Des Moines, IA).
** Helen Mary McMillan Sibthorpe '''+1917-1930+''' (b. 1911 MN)
** Ruth McMillan Wildrick '''1921-1939+''' (b. 1920 Des Moines, IA - d. 2006 Prunedale, Monterey, [[California|CA]]). Husband: Robert Folmer Wildrick (b. 1920 Des Moines, IA - d. 1989 San Leandro, Alameda, CA), son of Christian Wildrick (b. 1888 Denmark - d. 1963 Saylor Twp., Polk, IA) & Anna Wildrick (b. 1890 - d. 1964 Saylor Twp., Polk, IA).