Obituaries for Sunday, September 21, 2008

Published 5:00 am Monday, September 22, 2008

John Luper Miller Jr.

Services for John Luper Miller Jr., of Silver Creek, are 2 p.m.Sunday, Sept. 21, at Calvary Baptist Church in Silver Creek withburial in Silver Creek Methodist Church Cemetery. Wilson FuneralHome is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Sunday from 1 until 2 p.m. at the church.

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Mr. Miller, 83, died Sept. 18, 2008, at Lawrence County NursingCenter. He was born in Silver Creek on Sept. 25, 1924, to JohnLuper Miller Sr. and Myrtle Davis Miller.

He was a 1949 graduate of Mississippi State College and aretired accountant for Bell Telephone Company. He was a member ofCalvary Baptist Church and a former member of Monticello BaptistChurch.

He was also a member of Telephone Pioneers and a Gideon. He servedin the U.S. Navy as a pharmacist’s mate 3C.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his brothers, WayneMiller and Davis Miller; and his sister, Connie Lee.

Survivors are his wife, Rebecca Sauls Miller; his sons, RichardMiller, of Wichita Falls, Texas, and Tom Miller, of Bethany, Okla.;his daughters, Nancy Farner, of Marietta, Ga., and Virginia Johns,of Canton, Ga.; his brother, Kelly Miller, of Silver Creek; hissister, Carolyn Lee, of Ridgeland; and five grandchildren.

Memorials or gifts may be made to the Alzheimer’sFoundation.