Memorial services for Harry R. Mills, Jr., of Riverton are pending in Wo
rland for Saturday, Feb. 11. Inurnment will follow at the Riverview Cemetery in Worland. Military honors will be by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Mr. Mills died at the Riverton Memorial Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 31, 2012, at the age of 65.
Harry R. Mills, Jr., was born in Basin on Saturday, June 15, 1946, the son of Harry R. Mills, Sr., and Evelyn (Ellison) Mills. He grew up in Basin.
Mr. Mills served four years with the U.S. Air Force, including 13 months in Korea.
While home on leave, he married Sheryl Schneider on May 21, 1966, in Basin.
In 1967, the family moved to Riverton and purchased Wind River Implement. He later owed the former Heath Motel, now Jack Pine. Upon selling that business he purchased Piazzons Pizza in Worland and also drove truck for Black Hills Bentonite out of Worland. He then worked as a chemical sales engineer for Petrolite.
The couple moved back to Riverton in the mid 1990s, with Mr. Mills managing Rushmore Homes. He became an outside sales representative for Bailey Enterprises, and retired due to ill health.
Mr. Mills served on the Search and Rescue of Washakie County, on the Worland City Council, and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Worland.
He was of the Baptist faith.
His family said that while his family was always his first priority, Mr. Mills enjoyed hunting, fishing, the outdoors, camping, woodworking, and go-cart racing with his friends and family.
Survivors include his wife, Sheryl Mills of Riverton; son, Harry Mills III of Worland and his children Kylah Mills and Joshua Mills; daughter, Tanya Paxton of Worland and her children Bailey Shipley, MaKenzie Paxton, and Kris Paxton; a brother, Tim Mills and his wife Anita of Shell; a sisters, Donna Aagard and her husband Harold of Worland; a brother-in-law and three sisters-in-law.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Brandon Clay Mills, and a sister, Janie Mills.
On-line condolences for the family may be made at: theDavisFuneralHome.com
Arrangements are under the direction of the Davis Funeral Home of Riverton and the Bryant Funeral Home of Worland.
