Person:Floyd Miller (8)

MILLER. Died 02-11-1956. Floyd R. Miller, retired businessman of Jerseyville, died at one-fifteen o'clock Friday morning November 2, at the Jersey Community Hospital where he had been a medical patient for the past month. Funeral services were held at three-thirty o'clock Sunday afternoon, November 4, at Jacoby Brothers Funeral home with Rev. M. Edwards Breed officiating. Interment was in Oak Grove cemetery. Mr. Miller was born in Rockbridge, Illinois July 20, 1881 a son of the late Dr. Adam E. and Geneva Ludwig Miller. He marked his seventy-fifth birthday anniversary last July. The decedent was graduated from the Jerseyville high school with the class of 1901, and attended Northwestern Medical School in Chicago. His marriage to Charlotte E. Jacobs of Jerseyville took place in 1906. She, together with the couple's two children, Elizabeth and Frederick, preceded him in death. The latter, a major in the United States Army, was taken prisoner on Corregidor, and lost his life in 1944 when a prison ship moving prisoners from Philippines to China was sunk. Mr. Miller's marriage to Miss Marguerite Keller of Jerseyville took place in 1926. Surviving the decedent in addition to Mrs. Miller are a son and daughter, Floyd Paul Miller of Jerseyville and Mrs. Rita Miller Pape of St. Louis; one grandson, Jeffrey Scott Miller; one brother, Oliver J. Miller of Palmyra, and one sister, Mrs. Zada Hutchinson of Highland Park, Illinois. As a young man, Mr. Miller engaged in the general mercantile business with his father and brother in Rockbridge. The years from 1911 to 1916 were spent in farming at Greenfield and in the latter year he became affiliated with and operated the Jacobs Lumber Company in Jerseyville. He continued in that business until 1923. In 1924, Mr. Miller erected a modern brick building on North State Street and opened a hardware store which now bears the firm name of F. R. Miller and Son, and has, since Miller's retirement in 1947, been operated by his son, Paul Miller. Mr. Miller continued his farming and livestock interests after retiring from the hardware store. In former years, Mr. Miller was an active member of the First Presbyterian church of Jerseyville and was a member of the Masonic Lodge.