OBIT: Arthur A. MILLER, 1945, Rockwood, Somerset County, PA

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ARTHUR A. MILLER

  Rockwood lost one of its most prominent citizens and successful businessmen in 
the death on Thursday, June 7, at Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, of Arthur A. 
Miller, 45, a member of the firm of E. E. Miller & Sons.  He was admitted to the 
hospital after he was stricken on the day preceding his death.
  Born in Rockwood on Jan. 2, 1900, Arthur A. Miller was a son of Edward E. and 
Ada (Critchfield) Miller.  He was a graduate of Rockwood High School and the 
Eastman Business School, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.  Mr. Miller and Olive Bird, a 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bird of Listonburg, were married on June 23, 
1921.
  He was associated in business with his father, Edward E. Miller.  He was 
treasurer of the Rockwood Volunteer Fire Company and formerly served on the 
Church Council of St. Luke's Lutheran Church, in which he was active.  His 
health had been impaired since 1941.
  Surviving are his parents and wife and two children - Dorothy Jean, a student 
nurse at Memorial Hospital in Cumberland, and Robert Edward Miller, at home; one 
sister, Miss Mary Miller, a teacher in Rockwood High School, a brother, Paul J. 
Miller, and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Lydia Miller, aged 95, widow of 
Tobias Miller, formerly of Meyersdale.
  Funeral services were conducted at the Miller home at 2:30 p.m., Sunday by 
Rev. H. G. Hohman of Tyrone, former pastor of St. Luke's Lutheran Church.  
Burial was directed by Mills & Mickey, Rockwood morticians.

Meyersdale Republican, June 14, 1945