Obituaries:  Randy Lynn Miller, Sabine Parish       M-460
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 15, 1963
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net




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The Sabine Index - Randy Lynn Miller

  15 Mar 1963 - Death has struck a tragedy-ridden Bridge City
family a second time in three weeks.

  On Feb. 13, Gene Miller of 313 Youpon circle was burned to
death when fire swept a catalytic cracking unit at the Texeco
refinery in Port Arthur.

  Thursday, his five-year-old son died after a 22-month struggle
with leukemia.

  The latest victim was little Randy Lynn Miller. Death
came to M. D. Anderson hospital in Houston Thursday at 8:45 a.m.

  Bearing the brunt of the double tragedy is the wife and
mother, Mrs. Gene Miller.

  Through the long months, she watched her son slowly
dying, then was shocked by thr brutal unexpectedness of her
husband's death.

  Randy Miller had many trips to the Houston hospital
during his illness, his last stay starting Feb. 2.

  Mrs. Miller has two other sons, Mike and Kenneth.

  Funeral services were held Saturday at 10 a.m. in the First
Baptist church of Bride City, with the Rev. C. Bullard Jones,
pastor officiating. Burial was in the Hillcrest Memorial gardens,
under the direction of Claybar Funeral home of Orange.

  Survivors besides Mrs. Miller and two broth4ers, are
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Arvil D. Miller and Mrs. Jesse Davis,
and great-grandmother, Mrs. Mary Persnell, all of Florien.

  On Nov. 13, 1962 - three months before Mr. Miller died,
the child had been given a combined birthday and Christmas party
in the hospital because doctors had feared he would not live
until Christmas.

  However, he showed slight improvement, but the Millers knew it
would only be a matter of time, since a cure for leukemia still
has not been discovered.

  Mrs. Miller was with the boy at the Houston hospital
Feb. 13 when Mr. Miller was killed in the accident. She did not
learn of her husband's death until her return home later that
day.