Donald J. Millus

Professor Donald J. Millus Donald J. Millus, PhD, died at his home in Conway, South Carolina, on Sunday, June 28, 2009. Dr. Millus was born in Brooklyn, NY, on June 11, 1939, the third son of Felix and Margaret Millus. He is survived by his wife of forty-two years, Patricia Sikora Millus and their three children, Christian Anthony of Las Vegas, Nevada, Donald M. Millus MD, of Columbia, South Carolina, and Sara Millus Tyler of Elgin, South Carolina. Millus is also survived by his brother, John, of Queens, New York. Millus was predeceased by two brothers, Felix and Albert, and a sister, Margaret Maroldy. He has four grandchildren, Cameron and Erin Millus of Las Vegas, Donald J. Millus of Columbia, South Carolina, and Charles Landon Millus Tyler of Elgin. Millus is also survived by his brother, John, of Queens, New York. Millus was predeceased by two brothers, Albert and Felix, and a sister Margaret. Millus attended Holy Innocents Grammar School in Brooklyn, Regis High School in Manhattan, and Fordham College in the Bronx, majoring in classics and English. After six years as a Jesuit seminarian, he began his graduate studies in English language and literature at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He also served as a captain in the U.S. Army including a tour of duty in Vietnam for which he was awarded the Bronze Star. After completing his doctoral degree at Yale, Millus came to Coastal Carolina University to teach, write, and fish. In addition to publishing scholarly articles on the Protestant reformers and Bible translator, William Tyndale, Millus published a number of books about growing up in Brooklyn and fishing throughout the southeastern U.S. His book of poetry, Wading South, is still in print. In lieu of Flowers, donations may be made to St. James Roman Catholic Church in Conway or to the Coastal Carolina University library. Visitors may pay their condolences at the family house in Conway on Wednesday July 1 from 4 PM to 7 PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated at St. James Roman Catholic Church on Thursday at noon, the family will receive visitors at 11 AM prior to the funeral at the church. Inurnment will be on Friday at St James Cathlic Church. Goldfinch Funeral Home, Conway Chapel is serving the family.

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Donald J. Millus

June 28, 2009