Concetta (Coniglio) Miller

   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 they raced their motorcycles.

   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.  

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