He was training soldiers for the Iraqi Army.Detroit Free Press -- Angela Miller talked to her husband, Lowell, on Tuesday of matters serious and profound.
"He talked about the possibility of dying," she said.
The next day, Army Capt. Lowell Miller II of Flint, was killed during an attack in Iskandariyah, Iraq, the Department of Defense said.
He was training soldiers for the Iraqi Army.
"But he absolutely loved what he did. He loved being in the military. He loved training soldiers," Angela Miller said Sunday.
Miller, 35, shipped out in January, but had a three-week leave in July.
He used the time to marry Angela Miller. The couple spent a week honeymooning in Florida before he returned to Iraq on July 15.
They had married by proxy in April, but had the official ceremony in July in Sumpter Township.
"It was just wonderful to be with him," Angela Miller said.
Capt. Miller was an electrical engineer with Yazaki Corp. in Canton. He loved to play golf and be outdoors.
He had recently moved from Flint to Monroe, and was assigned to the Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 155th Infantry Regiment in McComb, Miss. He graduated in 1993 from Virginia Military Institute and later joined the Michigan Army National Guard, serving out of the Flint armory.
His father, Lowell Miller of Flint Township, was in the Naval Reserves for 22 years.
Angela Miller is a First Lieutenant in the Michigan National Guard and served in Egypt in 2004.
Other survivors include his daughters, Danielle, 11, and Alexandra, 7, both of Flint; his mother, Linda; and two stepchildren, Jessica, 13, and Jordan, 6, of Monroe.
Funeral arrangements are being handled by Swartz Funeral Home in Mundy Township.
He is the 59th member of the U.S. armed forces with known Michigan ties to be killed in Iraq.