- John Milani
Memorial services for John Milani will be held at 5:30 PM Wednesday, May 13. David
Curtright will officiate at the service at Fulkerson Memorial Chapel. Cremation has taken
place, with private interment of cremated remains planned for a later date. Military Honors
by the Plentywood veteran’s posts will conclude the service. All are invited to a time of
refreshment and remembrance at the Sheridan County Courthouse Jubilee Room
(beneath the library) from 6:30 - 8:00 PM. John died Tuesday night, April 14 at Sheridan
Memorial Nursing Home; he was 78.
John C. Milani was born June 23, 1930 in Orange, New Jersey, one of 13 children of
Charles and Angelina (Pisanello) Milani. When he was 13, he went to work to help support
his family. A combat veteran of the Korean conflict, John entered the U. S. Army in January,
1951. He married Eleanor Walsh August 16, 1951 in Orange; and was shipped out to
Korea soon after. His first child was born while he was overseas; after his discharge in
June, 1952 he returned to New Jersey. John was a victim of combat Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder, and struggled with it’s effects. His family recognized that underneath it all was a
struggling, caring man, who loved his family – and his grandchildren accepted him
completely and loved him just as he was.
John worked as a mechanic, specializing in rebuilding generators and alternators. He had his own shop, working in New Jersey and
later in Arizona. John has lived in Montana for the last several years. He had an apartment in Plentywood, but as his health failed, he
moved briefly to the Montana Pioneer Manor, and then to Sheridan Memorial Nursing Home.
Although divorced, John is survived by his wife, Eleanor, of Manheim, Pennsylvania and by 9 children: John Milani and his wife Chris,
of Dallas Texas, Joseph Milani, of Point Pleasant, New Jersey; Maryann Milani, and her husband Lynn Jones, of Mesa, Arizona;
Charles Milani, of Brick, New Jersey; Angel Green and her husband Mike, of Plentywood.; Carol Bruno and her husband Michael, of
Lititz, Pennsylvania; Susan Hackmann and her husband Vernon, of Plentywood; Toni Milani, of Point Pleasant; and Paul Milani, who
lives in Arizona. One brother, Rudy Milani, the last survivor of the family of 13 siblings, lives in Orange, New Jersey. John
is also survived by 19 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.
Fulkerson Funeral Home of Plentywood has charge of arrangements.
| 1930 - 2009 |
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Remembering John