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We are saddened to announce that Dr Mills’ husband, Micheal, passed away August 26th
In lieu of sending flowers, the family requests that donations be made in memory of Michael Price to support Moores Cancer Center, Fund F-1245. Please make checks payable to the UC San Diego Foundation, noting that the gift is in memory of Michael Price
PLEASE SEND GIFTS TO
Beth Green UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr, #0937
La Jolla, CA 92093
CARDS CAN BE MAILED TO THE OFFICE
Suzanne Mills, MD 12395 El Camino Real, Suite 217 San Diego, CA 92130
HIS STORY
“WHERE EVER YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE”
Mike, a beloved father, husband and treasured friend, passed away at home surrounded by his family after a valiant 10 year struggle with kidney cancer. Mike was born in Chippewa Falls, WI to Joe and Iola Price. He became a nurse anesthetist after serving as an Army medic, working first in the Twin cities, followed by Honolulu and finally at Kaiser in San Diego, as well as joining travelling medical teams to Mexico. It was in Hawaii that Michael met his second wife, Suzanne, on a blind date arranged by their mutual friend, Debbie Buccigrossi. Following a long distance romance they settled in San Diego raising two wonderful children, daughter MacKenzie and son Jamieson. Although settled isn’t really a word that applied to Mike.
Mike was a great adventurer, he ran marathons, cycled across the US and Canada, rock climbed glaciers and volcanos, sailed a 35 ft sailboat from Japan to Hawaii, canoed the boundary waters, to name just some of his exploits before he raised a family. Michael loved flying and at first got his pilot’s license in San Diego, but found his real joy in flying came from paragliding. He travelled from Washington state to Mexico competing in paragliding events.
Mike was nothing if not resilient, he continued to fly and travel even after his cancer had spread to his lungs, bone and brain. He and MacKenzie as well as two of her friends cycled the Camino de Santiago from Lyon, France to the Atlantic Coast of Spain. He also traveled to Thailand with MacKenzie, Jamie and nephew, Justin, for a rock climbing, scuba diving adventure which was interrupted by a brain bleed from a new tumor. Amazingly he recovered enough to get back to paragliding, travel to visit friends in Hawaii and to go on a ski trip to visit family in Canada.
When Mike was a stay at home dad he developed new hobbies learning to make beautiful turned wood bowls. He also took up birdwatching, inspired by his father-in-law Don, and shared by his children and best friend, Russ. He was a steadfast friend to Russ during his own extraordinarily long battle with cancer, spending nights in the hospital and going on 3 “last trips” together. Russ was an inspiration to Mike.
Mike felt that his best adventure of all and greatest accomplishment was being a dad to MacKenzie and Jamie.
Michael is survived by his children, MacKenzie and Jamieson, wife, Suzanne Mills, brothers Steve(Crystal, MN), and Richard(Chippewa Falls,WI), sister Marilyn(Ken,Rochester Hills,MI), Aunt Florence, brothers-in-law Robb(Debi) and Jack MIlls, parents in law, Grace and Don McClintock, 11 nieces and nephews, 4 great nephews, friends from Massachusetts to Hawaii and his dog, Pepe. His is preceded in death by his parents Joe(2001) and Iola(June 2016) and sister-in-law Lana Price.