Livingston County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Miller, Rev. Ory Miller December 30, 2008
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The Livingston Parish News - Jan 4, 2009
MILLER, REV ORY MILLER

Rev Ory Miller 89 died Tuesday Dec 30, 2009 at Golden Age Nursing Home in 
Denham Springs.  He was born June 15, 1919 in Walker where he graduated from 
Walker High School in 1936.  He was a veteran of the US Army Air Force and 
served in the European Theater.  After working 14 years in the banking 
business he entered the ministry in 1950 and graduated from the Louisiana 
College 1953 and the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in 1956.  He 
pastored Baptist churches for 23 years before joining the Southern Methodist 
denomination for 35 years. Rev. Miller served churches in Louisiana and South 
Carolina. Some of the churches he pastored in the area are First Baptist 
Church in Livingston, Line Creek Baptist Church in Kentwood, First Baptist 
Church in Greensburg, Eden Baptist Church in Denham Springs, Spring Creek 
Baptist Church, and First Southern Methodist Church in Hammond.  For the past 
nine years, he was the resident minister at La Plantation Retirement Center in 
Denham Springs. An active member of the Denham Springs Masonic Lodge F&AM, he 
was also a member of the Eastern Star. Ory Miller reveled in his grandchildren 
and enjoyed playing puzzle games and memory skills games with them to sharpen 
their logic skills as well as making it fun to remember Bible facts. He was a 
faithful servant and evangelist of the Lord, always striving to lighten the 
load of his family and fellow man. He lived his life as a Christian

Visitation was held at Seale Funeral Home on Friday Jan 2, 2009 and resumed at 
Hebron Baptist Church in Denham Springs on Saturday Jan 3, 2009 from 10 am 
until the funeral service at 1 pm followed by a Masonic service at the 
cemetery. The pastor of Davis Springs Southern Methodist Church, with 
assistance by the pastor of Indian Mound Baptist Church, and the pastor of 
Hebron Baptist Church led the services.

Rev. Miller is survived by his wife of almost 69 years, a daughter, two sons 
and daughters-in-law, seven grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and 
several nieces and nephews, with special mention of his very caring, loving 
and dependable niece. 

He was preceded in death by his parents, William Christopher Miller and Martha 
Geneva McNabb Miller; and three sisters and brothers-in-law, Lorraine and 
Bentley Rheams, Thelma and Cecil Eccles, and Vergie and Carl Eccles; and a son-
in-law, Terry Lytle. 

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to your local church or your 
favorite charity.

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