OBIT: Dr. John David MILLER, 1949, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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JOHN DAVID MILLER

  Dr. John David Miller, 79, one of Bridgewater, Va.'s most prominent residents, 
died at 4:45 a.m. Monday, Sept. 19, at the Rockingham Memorial Hospital where he 
had been a patient for the past ten days.
  Dr. Miller had been in ill health for the past four years, his condition 
becoming critical about two weeks ago.
  The son of the late Rev. Martin P. and Rebecca (Heatwole) Miller, he was born 
May 7, 1870, at Spring Creek Va., where he spent his early childhood and 
attended the local schools.  He later graduated from Peabody Normal School in 
Nashville, Tennessee.  He also graduated from Bridgewater College in 1901.  He 
then taught at Bridgewater College for two years and then entered the Medical 
College of Virginia in Richmond where he graduated in 1906.  He taught school in 
Rockingham County for twelve years.
  In 1902 he was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Cline of Stuarts Draft, who 
survives.
  Dr. Miller was a member of the Board of Trustees of Bridgewater College for a 
number of years and served as College physician for a number of years, until his 
health failed.  He was a faithful member of the Church of the Brethren since 
boyhood.
  Dr. Miller resided in Bridgewater since 1906 and served the vicinity 
faithfully until April 1945 when he retired due to ill health.  He is well known 
throughout his home community and county and will be greatly missed by all who 
knew him, both as a friend and family physician.  He was also well known in 
Church of the Brethren circles in Meyersdale having frequently visited his 
daughter, Mrs. Edgar Gnagey, and son, the Rev. DeWitt Miller, former pastor 
here.
  He was the surviving member of a family of nine, his sister, Miss Sue Miller, 
preceding him in death last Tuesday.
  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. J. D. Miller of Bridgewater, one daughter, Mrs. 
Dorothy Gnagey of Meyersdale, Pa., and one son, Dr. DeWitt Miller, pastor of the 
Church of the Brethren in Washington, D.C., one grandson, David Leroy Miller and 
a number of nieces and nephews.
  Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m. from the United 
Church of the Brethren in Bridgewater, the Rev. Edward K. Zigler officiating.  
Interment in the Oak Lawn Cemetery, Bridgewater, under the direction of W. L. 
Rosenberger Funeral Home.
  Pallbearers were nephews of the deceased: Wayland W. Miller, Francis S. 
Miller, Martin Q. Miller, Martin Bowman, Warren D. Bowman, Martin Miller, Arthur 
Miller and Jacob Miller.
  The family requested no flowers be sent; however, expressions of appreciation 
and friendship will be applied toward equipping a room in the Rockingham 
Memorial Hospital.

Meyersdale Republican, September 22, 1949