Concetta (Coniglio) Miller
August 24, 1925 -
February 8, 2025
Concetta Mary Miller, 99 of Danville, passed away on Saturday,
February 8, 2025 at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana.
Visitation will be on Friday, February 14th from 10-11am at Holy
Family Church, 444 E. Main Street in Danville. A Celebration of
Catholic Mass will follow at 11am with Father Narcis Katambe
officiating. Following services, Concetta will be laid to rest
in Resurrection Cemetery.
Concetta was born into an Italian
neighborhood in Buffalo, New York on August 24, 1925 to Gaetano
and Rosa (Alessi) Coniglio. She attended school in New York, and
as a young teen, picked strawberries and beans to support the
family income. As a young woman she worked in a factory to
support the war effort during WWII. Concetta met her husband
while he was stationed in the Navy. She traveled from New York
to Danville on the back of a Harley Davidson, where she spent
the rest of her life. Concetta was a stay-at-home mother,
raising five children, and being the most loving, caring, and
helpful mother imaginable. She made homemade lunches for her
children every day, and made their own clothes as well. She was
a Brownie troop leader, and her boys’ biggest cheerleader when
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Concetta never drove or worked outside
the home until her divorce in the early 1970’s, when she not only
obtained a driver’s license, but also went to DACC to become an LPN. Her
patience and gentle and loving nature made her an amazing caregiver for
the elderly. Concetta continued working in healthcare until December of
2003 until a broken hip forced her retirement.
Concetta saw two sons enlist and retire
from the US Navy. She traveled across the United States on vacation by
motorcycle more than once, and she enjoyed traveling to Sicily several
times after her retirement. She enjoyed meeting family members for the
first time, and absolutely loved it there. She taught her children and
grandchildren to make Italian cookies, Easter Bread, and other wonderful
Sicilian foods that she grew up on and learned from her mother. She felt
it was important to keep her Sicilian heritage alive, even in rural
Illinois.
Concetta leaves behind her five children: Jacquelyn (Jerald)
Feingold, Michele Steht, Andrew Miller, Matthew (Dana) Miller, and
Roseann Miller; seventeen grandchildren, twenty-nine
great-grandchildren, and five great-great grandchildren. She also leaves
behind one remaining brother Angelo (Angela) Coniglio. She was preceded
in death by her parents, one granddaughter, and eight brothers and
sisters: Gaetano ‘Guy” Coniglio, Raymond Coniglio, Leonard Coniglio,
Felice Coniglio, Carmela Volo, her twin sister Maria Sowa, Antonio
“Tony” Coniglio, and Guiseppe Coniglio.
Messages and memories may be left on our
website at www.KrugerCoanPape.com, or on the Kruger Funeral Home
Facebook page. Memorials may be made in Concetta’s name to Holy Family
Catholic Church. |