Basil Mills, founder of Mills Distributing, which was one of the leading vegetable grower-shippers in the Salinas through most of the second half of the 20th century, died Jan. 14 at the age of 91.
Mr. Mills was born Jan. 18, 1930, in Montevideo, Minnesota, the third of five children. After graduating from high school in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, he attended the University of Colorado-Boulder for three years before serving in the U.S. Army in Germany from March 1951 to March 1953 during the Korean War.