THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, March 10, 1996 TAG: 9603100006
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
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Lawrence Ingram Miller died March 8, 1996, at Montgomery Regional Hospital.
Born in Jackson Center, Ohio, to the late Lawrence H. and Nellie Ingram Miller, he was a retired professor emitrus of the Plant Pathology Department at VPI and SU from 1936 to 1980. From 1936 to 1969 he worked at the Tidewater Research Center in Suffolk, and also remained active in research until his death. He was a Marine Corp veteran of World War II; a founding member of the Ruitain Club Holland; in 1960 he received the J. Shelton Horsly Research Award from Virginia Academy of Science; 1966 received Golden Peanut Research Award from National Peanut Council; 1976 elected president of the Society of Nematology; 1987 received the Distinguished Service Award presented by the Potomac Division of American Pathological Society; 1980 elected honorary president of Mexican Society of Nematology and in 1980 retired from VA Tech.
Survivors include his wife, Mary McBryde Miller; a son, Lawrence L. Miller Jr. of Blacksburg; a daughter, Polly Ashelman of Colonia, N.J.; a grandson, Scott Ashelman of Blacksburg; a brother, Hubert Miller of Maryville, Ohio.
The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at McCoy Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Alfred Payne officiating. Interment will follow in Westview Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to a charity of your choice. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.
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