THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, September 1, 1995 TAG: 9509010440
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B6 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: FRANKLIN LENGTH: Short : 41 lines
Merle Miller, 81, died Aug. 30, 1995.
He was born in Lincoln Township, Pocahontas Co., Iowa, to Walter William Miller and Ethel Mae Fraser. He grew up on the farm in Iowa and Minnesota. He served in the Navy in World War II. After the war, he married and started a family in Iowa, but soon relocated to Florida and Georgia where he pursued his work as a steeplejack. He moved his family back to Iowa until his work took him to Virginia in 1958. His family soon followed and it was in Fredericksburg, Va., that he would spend most of the next 27 years living, working, and raising his family. Mr. Miller loved music, and as a young man had played the accordion and harmonica. He worked as a mechanic, welder, ironworker, and as owner and captain of the charter boat Titonka based out of the Yeocomico Marina near Kinsale, Va. Mr. Miller traveled extensively in the United States, both for work and for pleasure. He was a friendly, outgoing individual who made friends wherever he went and enjoyed nothing so much as a good conversation with friends.
Mr. Miller, a resident of Franklin, in recent years, had been bedridden since suffering a massive stroke in April 1993. He was preceded in death by his former wife Marie Albers Miller and his older brother Virgil Miller.
He is survived by his current wife, Margaret Johnson Miller; his sister, Mrs. Beulah Jesse of Albert Lea, Minn.; his children, Milo E. Miller of Dale City, Va., Marvin Michael Miller of Alexandria, Va., Mrs. Maxine A. Sullivan of Fredericksburg; and three grandchildren, James Michael Sullivan, Renne Estelle Sullivan, and Rachel Marie Sullivan.
A graveside funeral wil be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 2, 1995, in Stafford Memorial Park, Stafford County, Va., with the Rev. Melvin E. Winters officiating. The family will receive friends at Wright Funeral Home, Franklin, Va., from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today, and suggests that memorials be made to a local chapter of the Salvation Army.
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