Miller, Max Leo (1924-2007)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2007 Aug 13 p. 8

Birth date: 1924 Jul 7

text of obituary:

MAX LEO MILLER

Max Leo Miller, 83, of Gulfport, Miss., died July 29, 2007. He was born July 7, 1924, to Simon J. and Lydia Bender Miller in Wellman, Iowa.

He graduated from Lyman High School. He completed two years at Goshen (Ind.) College, where he met Mary Hunsberger. They were married Nov. 5, 1949, in Doylestown, Pa.

They later moved to Gulfport, where they made their home. He served in Civilian Public Service in California, South Africa and Greece. He made his living as a dairy farmer for decades and worked for the Harrison County Dairyman’s Association. He later worked and retired from the U.S. Postal Service as a rural mail carrier.

He was a past president of Harrison County Farm Bureau and served as a Harrison County Soil Conservation Commissioner for 34 years. He was a faithful member of Gulfhaven Mennonite Church. He was also a member of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Running Club.

He was an avid organic gardener and farmer and was one of the first electric fence farmers in Harrison County. He loved to fish and write poetry.

Survivors include his wife, Mary; six children, Carol Miller and her husband, Allan Kauffman, of Goshen, Ind., Steve Miller and his wife, Dot, and Gary Miller and his wife, Red Dot, both of Gulfport, Judi Miller and her husband, Paul White, of Broadway, Va., Jan Byers and her husband, Ron, of Sarasota, Fla., and Scott Miller and his wife, Suzanne, of Gulfport; four brothers, Ralph Miller of Gulfport, Claude Miller of Kenner, La., Carl Miller and Oren Miller, both of Gulfport; two sisters, Ruth Stroup of Goshen, Ind., and Jane Thomas of Marion, S.D.; 11 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at Gulfhaven Mennonite Church. Burial was in the church cemetery.