Willard Miller

© Published in Enid, OK. News

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Submitted by: Sylva Rhodes

Willard Miller

The funeral for Willard Miller, 83, of Cherokee, will be 10 a.m. Thursday at Cherokee First Baptist Church. The Rev. Tom Cooksey will officiate. A private family burial will be in Cherokee Municipal Cemetery. Arrange-ments are by Goodwin Funeral Home, Cherokee. Visitation will be 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home, with the family present from 6 to 7.

He was born July 20, 1924, in Tahlequah to Euell and Ella Harris Miller and died Monday, March 26, 2007, at Cherokee Manor, Cherokee.

He attended Crittenden Elem-entary School and graduated from Bagley High School in 1941. He was a veteran of World War II, serving from 1941 to 1946. He participated in D-Day in 1944 and the liberation of Dachau concentration camp.

He attended Okmulgee Voca-tional School for linotype machinist training and worked in Meade, Kan.

He married Doris Hayden July 26, 1953. She died in 1998.

He worked in Colorado Springs, Colo., before returning to Cherokee where he worked more than 50 years for Cherokee Publishing Co. He was a member of American Legion and Masonic Lodge.

Surviving are two sons, Lance Miller of Cherokee and Gary Miller of Logan, N.M.; one daughter, Linda Miller of Indianapolis; one brother, Euell Miller Jr. of Chanute, Kan.; and one sister, Ruby Russell of LaPorte, Texas.

In addition to his wife, Doris, he was preceded in death by one brother and a half sister.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Cherokee EMTs.

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