Kent County MI Archives Obituaries.....Miller, Charles, Raymond October 27, 1960 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Craig Miller MillerCraig@comcast.net June 21, 2007, 12:57 pm Grand Rapids Press MILLER – Charles R. Miller, aged 75, of 1312 Logan, SE, was taken to his Heavenly home Thursday afternoon to be at home with the Lord. Surviving are his wife; two sons; five grandchildren and two brothers. Services will be held Saturday afternoon 3 o’clock at the Zaagman Memorial Chapel. Dr. David Otis Fuller and Rev. Floyd C. Peterson officiating. Interment Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. Members of the family will be at the chapel Friday evening 7 to 9. Memorial contributions may be made to the Missionary fund of Wealth Street Baptist church. Additional Comments: He was from a mining town Glen Rock, Shrewsbury Township, Luzerne County, PA close to Seven Points, PA. His father was a miner and also his brothers. He started working the mines and decided that that wasn't the life for him. So he ran away from home at 13 years old never to live at home again. There were two railroads in town and he jumped on one to leave. He lived on his uncle farm after leaving home. He started working on the railroad and then be came a telegraph operator. He lived in Texas as a young man. He was a store manager at J.G. McCrory, S.H. Kress & Co. (Galveston, TX), Kresge. He lived in a boardinghouse in Galveston, Texas from Feb. 26, 1910 to July11, 1911. He was a worldly man until he got saved at a tent meeting inhislate20'stoearly 30's. They lived in Debois, PA after their marriage. He lived at 1312 Logan St., S.E., Grand Rapids for 41 years. He had a stroke in 1955 and suddenly died with a heart attack in 27 Oct. 1960. Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens & Mausoleum 2894 Patterson Avenue SE Grand Rapids, MI 49512 616-949-2560 Masonic Garden 136-B3 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/kent/obits/m/miller1946gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb