Obituary
John Stanley "Stan" Miller, 92, of Annapolis, died Nov. 27 at the Ginger Cove Health Center after a brief illness.
Mr. Miller was born Nov. 2, 1908, in Clarendon, Texas. After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1932, he was commissioned in the Naval Reserve.
He supervised the construction of armored turrets for naval vessels with the Midvale Co. in Philadelphia, Pa., and was an ordnance inspector for the Navy before joining the Navy Department's Bureau of Ships in 1940. During World War II, he was a naval architect in the new construction program for destroyers, destroyer escorts and frigates.
From 1950 until his retirement in 1965, he was in the Office of Naval Materiel as the senior civilian in the Navy's standardization program, guiding the merger of Navy specifications and standards with those of the Army and Air Force. After his retirement from the Navy Department, he was a design engineer in the atomic power division with Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. during construction of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.
Surviving are his wife of 68 years, Ruby Young Miller; two sons, retired Marine Col. John G. Miller of Annapolis and Brian C. Miller of Winston-Salem, N.C.; nine grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
The Capital (Annapolis, MD) - Tuesday, November 28, 2000
John Stanley "Stan" Miller, 92, of Annapolis, died Nov. 27 at the Ginger Cove Health Center after a brief illness.
Mr. Miller was born Nov. 2, 1908, in Clarendon, Texas. After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1932, he was commissioned in the Naval Reserve.
He supervised the construction of armored turrets for naval vessels with the Midvale Co. in Philadelphia, Pa., and was an ordnance inspector for the Navy before joining the Navy Department's Bureau of Ships in 1940. During World War II, he was a naval architect in the new construction program for destroyers, destroyer escorts and frigates.
From 1950 until his retirement in 1965, he was in the Office of Naval Materiel as the senior civilian in the Navy's standardization program, guiding the merger of Navy specifications and standards with those of the Army and Air Force. After his retirement from the Navy Department, he was a design engineer in the atomic power division with Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. during construction of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.
Surviving are his wife of 68 years, Ruby Young Miller; two sons, retired Marine Col. John G. Miller of Annapolis and Brian C. Miller of Winston-Salem, N.C.; nine grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
The Capital (Annapolis, MD) - Tuesday, November 28, 2000
Obituary
John Stanley "Stan" Miller, 92, of Annapolis, died Nov. 27 at the Ginger Cove Health Center after a brief illness.
Mr. Miller was born Nov. 2, 1908, in Clarendon, Texas. After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1932, he was commissioned in the Naval Reserve.
He supervised the construction of armored turrets for naval vessels with the Midvale Co. in Philadelphia, Pa., and was an ordnance inspector for the Navy before joining the Navy Department's Bureau of Ships in 1940. During World War II, he was a naval architect in the new construction program for destroyers, destroyer escorts and frigates.
From 1950 until his retirement in 1965, he was in the Office of Naval Materiel as the senior civilian in the Navy's standardization program, guiding the merger of Navy specifications and standards with those of the Army and Air Force. After his retirement from the Navy Department, he was a design engineer in the atomic power division with Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. during construction of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.
Surviving are his wife of 68 years, Ruby Young Miller; two sons, retired Marine Col. John G. Miller of Annapolis and Brian C. Miller of Winston-Salem, N.C.; nine grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
The Capital (Annapolis, MD) - Tuesday, November 28, 2000
John Stanley "Stan" Miller, 92, of Annapolis, died Nov. 27 at the Ginger Cove Health Center after a brief illness.
Mr. Miller was born Nov. 2, 1908, in Clarendon, Texas. After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1932, he was commissioned in the Naval Reserve.
He supervised the construction of armored turrets for naval vessels with the Midvale Co. in Philadelphia, Pa., and was an ordnance inspector for the Navy before joining the Navy Department's Bureau of Ships in 1940. During World War II, he was a naval architect in the new construction program for destroyers, destroyer escorts and frigates.
From 1950 until his retirement in 1965, he was in the Office of Naval Materiel as the senior civilian in the Navy's standardization program, guiding the merger of Navy specifications and standards with those of the Army and Air Force. After his retirement from the Navy Department, he was a design engineer in the atomic power division with Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. during construction of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.
Surviving are his wife of 68 years, Ruby Young Miller; two sons, retired Marine Col. John G. Miller of Annapolis and Brian C. Miller of Winston-Salem, N.C.; nine grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
The Capital (Annapolis, MD) - Tuesday, November 28, 2000
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