Bryan Co., OK; Obituary: Olen Martin Miller - m460

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Durant Daily Democrat
Trudy Marlow
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Source:  4/27/1999 - Durant Daily Democrat Survivors names omitted.
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Olen Martin Miller, 76 - m460

A mass of Christian burial will 
be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. William's Catholic
 Church in Durant for Olen Martin Miller, 76, Durant, 
who died Friday, April 23, 1999, at the Medical Center 
of Southeastern Oklahoma. Father Norbert Karava will officiate.

The son of Floyd Francis and Mary (Mitch) Miller, he 
was born on Sept. 1, 1922, in Woodward. 

Miller was a retired distributor for Coors 
Distributing; member of St. William's Catholic Church; 
president of the Durant Chamber of Commerce in 1976; past
 president of the Oklahoma Malt Beverage Association and 
a member of the Elks Lodge. 

He was instrumental in the construction of 
the peanut monument at city hall. Olen was a graduate 
of Oklahoma City University. He was a second grade 
lieutenant in the U.S. Navy where he was a flight 
instructor during World War II at Pensacola, Fla. 

Miller married Therese Cecelia Steichen at Our Lady 
of Perpetual Help Cathedral in Oklahoma 
City on Aug. 5, 1950. 

Preceding him in death were his wife, 
Therese C. Miller in 1996; daughter, Carolyn 
Hartwell in 1993; son, John Francis Miller in 
1991, and his parents. 

Burial will be in Highland Cemetery in Durant. 

Rosary service is at 8 p.m. today at St. William's 
Catholic Church. 

Memorials may be made to St. William's Catholic 
Church, 802 University Blvd., Durant, OK. 74701.