NAME: EDGAR ROOSEVELT MILLER, AGE 89, LONGTIME ATOKA COUNTY RESIDENT.

BORN: NOVEMBER 23, 1908 AT NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS TO JAMES DANIEL AND SUSAN IDA (NIVENS) MILLER. PASSED AWAY: THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1998 AT HIS RESIDENCE. AGE: 89 YEARS 7 MONTHS AND 16 DAYS EDUCATION: ATTENDED SCHOOLS IN NACOGDOCHES, TX. MARRIED: LOIS MAURINE LASSITER ON SEPTEMBER 5, 1942 AT CADDO, OK. OCCUPATION: OWNED AND OPERATED MILLER'S TEXACO FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS AND LATER WORKED FOR ALBERT FURR MOTOR COMPANY. CHURCH AFFILIATION: BAPTIST FAITH. ED MOVED TO OKLAHOMA IN THE LATE 1920'S AND SETTLED IN THE CADDO AND MATOY AREA. IN 1945 HE AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO ATOKA COUNTY. ED SERVED IN THE U. S. ARMY DURING WORLD WAR II WITH THE BATTERY B 522D COAST ARTILLERY BATTALION, ACHIEVING THE RANK OF STAFF SERGEANT. HE ALSO SERVED A NUMBER OF YEARS ON THE ATOKA COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD. SURVIVED BY WIFE: LOIS MILLER OF THE HOME. SONS: JIM MILLER AND WIFE CINDY OF WAPANUCKA, OK. PHILLIP MILLER AND WIFE GAYLENE OF ATOKA, OK. DAN MILLER AND WIFE TAMMI OF ATOKA, OK. DAUGHTERS: LINDA COYLE AND HUSBAND DON OF BENTLEY, OK. MARY SHEFFIELD AND HUSBAND CURTIS OF LANE, OK. BETTY HARTSFIELD AND HUSBAND TED OF CLARITA, OK. JAN MCDONALD AND HUSBAND GARY OF STRINGTOWN, OK. 16 GRANDCHILDREN, 10 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. BROTHERS: FRED MILLER OF CADDO, OK. CLARENCE DOC MILLER AND WIFE VIRGINIA OF GRANTS PASS, OR. SISTER: EVA HULL AND HUSBAND LUTHER OF CADDO, OK. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: JAMES DANIEL AND SUSAN IDA MILLER. BROTHER: RAY MILLER. SISTERS: INEZ SMITH, IRENE, AND FLORENCE MILLER.

DATE OF SERVICES: SUNDAY, JULY 12, 1998 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK. INTERMENT: BUTLER CEMETERY ~ LANE, OK. OFFICIATING: REV. LOYD THOMPSON. ASSISTING: REV. BOB JOHNSON. CASKETBEARERS: (GRANDSONS) TRACY COYLE, ALAN COYLE, STEVEN SHEFFIELD, LANCE HARTSFIELD, TRAVIS MILLER, JASON MILLER, JAMEY MILLER, AND JOSH MCDONALD. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: DWIGHT ROGERS, WALLACE ALLEN, DEAN ALLEN, MIKE SETTLEMIRES, JOHNNY ESKUE, CLYDE PRUITT, BOB BREEDEN, HARVEY CAPPS, BARNEY MCCALL, HARRISON STEWART, DOYLE SHEFFIELD, AND PAUL MULLINS.