Ingrid G. Millis

Ingrid was born a German citizen, in the summer of 1929, in Sudetenland – a German occupied part of Czechoslovakia. Her family survived World War II, moving to Munich Germany thereafter. While working at the US Airforce base near Munich, she met and married Floyd Millis, an Airforce pilot on Oct 22, 1956. Shortly thereafter, Floyd was stationed to Louviers France, 1956-1958, where their first child, Michelle, was born in 1958. Later that same year, they moved to Smyrna Georgia, where their second child, Marc, was born in 1959.

Several times over the years, Ingrid traveled back to visit her relatives, who were now living in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, bringing along her children for the cultural and family experience. In addition to being a housewife, Ingrid worked as a Library assistant at her children’s junior high school. After her children moved away, she resumed college and graduated cum laude with a BA in German, from Georgia State University, in 1987. Thereafter she worked for Dickow Pump Company as a German translator.

Ingrid created several oil paintings, wrote children’s stories about the Rubezahl legend from her home Sudetenland, and compiled a written record of her life growing up for her family. When she and Floyd retired in 1991, they bought a camping trailer and traveled west searching for and collecting rocks. Ingrid was quite good at "rockhounding" and had essays published by the Cobb County Gem & Mineral Society, where she learned how to make jewelry. After her husband died in 2013, she moved into independent living, and then into assisted living.

Ingrid is survived by her daughter, Michelle L. Millis; son, Marc G. Millis; granddaughters, Carly Jalowiec and April Mills; and younger brother, Dieter Kotrubczik.

Since all of Ingrid’s relatives live far from Atlanta, there will be no memorial service. Gratefully, Ingrid’s children and grandchildren were able to visit Ingrid shortly before she passed.