Obit for Miller Jr, Dr. Roy V. - Grady County OK

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Miller Jr, Dr. Roy V. 

SAN MARCOS - Dr. Roy V. Miller Jr., 72, died Thursday, August 5, 2004.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in First Baptist Church of San Marcos. 
Burial will be at 4 p.m. Monday in Cowboy Cemetery, east of Rochelle, near 
Brady. Arrangements are by Pennington Funeral Home.

Dr. Miller was born in Chickasha, Okla., on Sept. 13, 1931, to Roy and Eva 
Miller. When Roy was 14 his family moved to Friona, where he graduated 
from Friona High School. He received a BS degree in animal husbandry from 
Texas Tech University in 1953. This is where he met the love of his life, 
Glenda Ruth Williams from Lohn. They were married at First Baptist Church 
of San Angelo on Dec. 15, 1954. Following graduation, he served in the 
Navy from 1953 to 1957. He was stationed up and down the East Coast from 
Florida to Norfolk, Va., and then was discharged while stationed in 
Albuquerque, N.M.

From 1957 to 1966, he was on the experiment station staff as range 
management conservationist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, 
Colo. From CSU, he received an MS degree in range management in 1960 and a 
Ph.D. in botany and plant ecology in 1967. During this time the family was 
blessed by the births of their children, Dan, Darla, and Ben. The family 
moved to Chico, Calif., where he taught at Chico State University from 
1966 to 1969. During his time there he developed the university's range 
management program. Then the family moved to Vernon in 1969, and he became 
the area range and brush control specialist for the Texas Extension 
Service.

In 1974, he accepted the position of chairman of the agriculture 
department at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos. After 15 
years as chairman, he stepped down to a full-time teaching position at the 
university.

Dr. Miller retired from SWT in August 1996. He was an active member of the 
Texas Section of Range Management, having been a member in Texas, Colorado 
and California.

Roy was a deacon and a steadfast member of First Baptist Church in San 
Marcos. For many years he taught and ministered to a co-ed Sunday school 
class.

Survivors include his father and mother, Roy and Eva Miller of Friona; his 
wife; his children, Dan Miller and wife, Rhonda, of Wheelock, Darla Powell 
and husband, Ricky, of Wichita Falls and Ben Miller and wife, Tracy, of 
Middleburg, Fla.; nine grandchildren, Joshua Powell, Jared Miller, Sam 
Miller, Rachel Miller, Elizabeth Miller, Hannah Miller, Abigail Miler, 
Jessica Miller, and Jenny Miller; four sisters, Mary Lou Glass and 
husband, Dale, of McLean, Donna Mears and husband, Sam, of Friona, Linda 
Tims and husband, Clyde, of Sunray and Jan Miller of Los Alamos, N.M.; and 
many nieces and nephews.

The family suggests memorials be to First Baptist Church of San Marcos 
Building Fund, P.O. Box 1745, San Marcos, TX 78667; or to CTMC Hospice 
Care, 1345 Thorpe Lane, San Marcos, TX 78666.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Amarillo Globe-News, Aug. 7, 2004
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