|
 SGT. MILLER ON LEAVE Sgt. Robert Miller, who has twelve
years in service in the regular army with the last six months spent in
Germany is home on 30-day leave. He is visiting his wife and two boys,
John and Don, at the home of her father, Rev. Lee Johnson on Route 3,
Elba, where they have resided during his absence overseas. Sgt. Miller
and family will leave soon for Ft. Hood, Texas, where he will be
stationed with Co. C, 58th Inf., 2nd. Armored Div.
[The Elba Clipper, Elba, AL, 29 Mar 1962, Thu, Page 1]
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Sgt. and Mrs. Robert Miller (Ann
Johnson) announce the birth of a son on January 17th, weighing seven
pounds and thirteen ounces. The new arrival has been named Ronnie. The
Millers live at Kill- een, Texas, where he is stationed with the army at
Fort Hood. They have two other sons, Johnnie and Donnie.
The
grandparents are Reverend and Mrs. R. Lee Johnson of Elba and Mr. and
Mrs. Loyd Miller of Athens, Tennessee.
Sgt Miller has made the army a
career and after completing his present enlistment will only have six
years service before being eligible tor retirement.
[The Elba Clipper, Elba, AL, 24 Jan 1963, Thu, Page 6]
|
 ROBERT E. MILLER, Army Sgt., son of Mr. and Mrs. Loyd
Miller, Route 5, Elba, is participating in OPERATION BIG LIFT, the
largest transoceanic Army-Air Force deployment ever made by air. The
exercise began October 22 and is scheduled to end in late December.
Sergeant Miller and other members of the 2d Armored Division, a total of
more than 16,000 soldiers, were flown from bases near Fort Hood, Texas,
to bases in Germany where they drew heavy equipment from prepositioned
stocks. The men then joined other U.S. troops stationed in Germany for a
NATO training exercise. Upon completion of the training, the division
will turn fn its equipment and return to the U.S.
The exercise is a
demonstration of U.S. military ability to reinforce NATO forces through
airlift of a U.S. based division to Germany and link-up of this division
with combat equipment positioned there.
Miller, a shop foreman in
Headquarters Company 2d Battalion of the division's 50th Infantry at
Fort Hood, entered the Army in 1950 and arrived overseas last March on
this tour of duty.
[The Elba Clipper, Elba, AL, 14 Nov 1963, Thu, Page 3] |
Robert Miller
May 9, 1935 - September 6, 2016
Robert Eugene Miller 81 of Elba, AL departed this life Tuesday, September 06, 2016 at his home in Elba, Alabama.
Funeral services will be held from Hayes Funeral Home Chapel on Thursday, September 08, 2016 at 2:00 PM with Rev. James Newell officiating. Committal services will follow in Evergreen Cemetery of Elba, Alabama. Visitation will be at Hayes Funeral Home on Thursday, September 08, 2016 from 12:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
Survivors include: Wife of 58 years Martha Ann Miller, Elba, AL, Son - John (Sherry) Miller, Elba, AL, Son - Donald (Barbara) Miller, Navarre, FL, Son - Ronald (Kim) Miller, Enterprise, AL, Sister - Elsie (John) Norris, Athens, TN, Sister - Janice Skinner, Athens, TN, Sister - Betty (Paris) Cline, Athens, TN, Sister - JoAnn (Eddie) Medley, Athens, TN, Brother - Franklin (Patricia) Miller of Athens, TN, Grandson - Whitman Miller, Elba, AL, Granddaughter - Hannah (William) Tremlett, Auburn, A, Grandson - Cory Miller, Elba, AL, Granddaughter - Emily Miller, Elba, AL, Great Granddaughter - McKenna Jackson, Elba, AL, and several Nieces, Nephews and Great Nieces and Nephews.
Mr. Miller was preceded in death by his Father - Loyd Buck Miller, Mother - Etta Frances Miller, Brothers - James and Jack Miller.
[Hayes Funeral Home of Elba, AL,
Sep 7, 2016] |
 
[both courtesy of "Rick & Kat"]
Grave markers for Robert E. Miller in Evergreen Cemetery,
Elba (Coffee county), Alabama.
Robert enlisted in the
Army on 14 February 1953.
He was commissioned as a
WO-1 on 17 March 1969 and then to WO-2 on 17 March 1970. His
warrant rating probably came though gradating as a helicopter pilot,
perhaps at Fort Rucker
Robert served with the
508th during the Vietnam Conflict |
