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Classmate Jon Milliken passed away peacefully at his home in Ramona, California on October 12, 2014, surrounded by his family. He is survived by his wife, Judy Gust, two children, Sean Patrick Milliken and Carrie Ann Raham (Richard) and three Grandchildren.
Jon received his LL.M. degree from University of San Diego School of Law, a J.D. from Washburn University School of Law and a B.B.A. from Washburn University. He is a graduate of Topeka High School class of 1961.
He retired in 1990 as a senior officer and attorney from the Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps. He served in various Legal based positions with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. More recently, Jon was an arbitrator, mediator, and problem-solver, specializing in helping people find solutions for their human, legal and workplace conflicts as a professional neutral in alternative dispute resolution.
In lieu of flowers, please make a contribution in Jon's name to The Elizabeth Hospice, 500 La Terraza Blvd., Suite 130, Escondido, CA 92025.
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Michael A. Tyree
I'm saddened to her of Jon's passing as he was a good friend during our Clay Grade School years.
Some "Jon stories", just for posterities sake:
His Dad was a Motorola dealer and a talented early electronics/radio/TV repairman (military trained) that had a thriving 2-way radio business selling, installing and repairing them. Jon and I spent many nights listening to one of the old radios in his house(plenty to choose from) with stations all over the USA as our "treats". Of course the powerful Del Rio, Texas station was a mainstay but we "scored" many far away places those nights, all back when the world was a much larger place.
Jon and I worked together on a Clay School paper drive and together we may have set the "all time two kid record" for papers? Just down Buchanan Street from Jon's home we knocked on the door of a little old lady that lived there alone in her old & large Victorian home. She answered, "yes, I have a few old papers you can have", and asked us to have a look. Well, it seemed she had every paper from WWI forward in hallways & various other places! Jon & I had the paper truck come to his driveway (where his Dad also often worked on service truck radios) and we used a red wagon to tote them to the truck, load after load.
It's refreshing and not the least surprising to see that Jon was a dedicated lawyer to those in need!
Goodbye Jon
Kent H. Freeland
I had only a passing acquaintance with Jon in high school and was surprised to learn that we both had law degrees and that he lived only about 40 miles from me all these years in the San Diego area. It's a shame how we lose touch.
Kent Freeland
David P. Thompson
At Topeka High School Jon was, in comparison to me and many of my friends, not overtly opinionated and full of himself. I thought that youthful narcissism was just the way people that age were until our 50th reunion brought back more specific memories of people I had forgotten. Jon was a big, quiet, gentle person. He was not asleep at the wheel, but was an acute observer, and people listened when he spoke. He was also very funny but not a comic. I have a friend in Portland who is a professional mediator, still working at 70 because he loves it, and have learned from him about that work and the skills required, including the perspective gained from years of life and experience mediating. Jon must have been an excellent mediator, and will no doubt be missed in that arena.
Although we were completely out of touch, since 1961, I will miss Jon.
I love Mike Tyree's story about the paper drive...
David Thompson
Timothy K. Stone
Jon was in our band during high school and a friend at Washburn U. We played in the band there and had some fun times. As David said, he wasn't so full of himself as we can tend to be and that his sense of humor made him someone good to know. We shared some things with each other recently and I'm glad I got the chance to do that, even though we were separated by time and distance.