Social Security Death Index
Name: Thurman Miller
Last Residence: 43221 Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States of America
Born: 28 Dec 1881
Died: Apr 1977
State (Year) SSN issued: Ohio (1952-1953)
Ohio Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2002
Name: H T Miller
Birth Date: Est. 1882
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence City: Upper Arlington
Residence County: Franklin
Residence State: Ohio
Residence Country: United States
Death Date: 11 Apr 1977
Hospital of Death: MT Carmel Medical Center
City of Death: Columbus (Pt)
County of Death: Franklin
Certificate: 026316
Age at Death: 95
Certifier: Physician
Marital Status: Married
Census Tract: 6420
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio
3/20/1962
"Dusty" Miller Paid Tribute at Wilmington College
Thurman "Dusty" Miller, formerly of Marshall and Hillsboro, was honored at Wilmington College Friday night at a faculty-trustee banquet. Dr. Oscar Boyd, emeritus professor of chemistry, read a framed tribute to "Dusty'.
Presentation of the tribute and the dinner climaxed an all-day meeting on the campus for the trustees. It was planned as a surprise for "Dusty" near the anniversary (April 2) of his 60th year of affiliation with the college.
He enrolled as a freshman at the Quaker school in 1902. He has been a member of the board of trustees for 35 years.
The tribute, signed on behalf of the board of trustees and the faculty by Walter Tangeman, board chairman, and James M. Read, college president, reads as follows:
"Know all men by these presents that April 2, 1962, marks the anniversary of three score years which H. Thurman "Dusty" Miller has spent in love and service to Wilmington College. During these six decades his life has been inseparable from the life of his alma mater.
"Dusty" Miller, newsman, essayist, biographer, lover of mankind, peripatetic emissary of the "Capital of the World"; his writings reflect his real self, his humor, his optimism, his wise and kind philosophy, his faith in eternal goodness.
"High-minded, sweet-souled, with an insight into the hearts of his fellow men that has enabled him to to meet them in all their moods, he has gone through life bringing smiles and cheer and comfort not only to his immediate circle, but to a multitude whom he has never known.
"Meeting all on terms of equality, mixing with the poor, the lowly, the cultured, the rich, Dusty has been a brother to mankind. When we grieved for childhood's happy days and long for mansions in the skies; when people about us have seemed indifferent and our friends only lukewarm; when our environment stifled our budding spirituality, or the frost of jealousy nipped our aspirations, Dusty rebuked our groans and signs and bid us look about on every side to the wonders of creation and the miracle within our grasp. He has lifted us up and restored us to our own.
"Dusty, you are to us the shadow of a mighty rock in a weary land."
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio
11/17/1964
Has Heart Attack
Thurman (Dusty) Miller of Columbus, formerly of Wilmington is recovering following a heart attack last week. A native of the Marshall community, where he started his career as a newspaper man, he is a widely known author and lecturer.
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio
6/25/1965
"Dusty" WRITES ABOUT WATTS 'DESCENDANTS
In his column, "The Grist," Thurman (Dusty) Miller writes in the Columbus Spectator the following comment about Highland County residents:
Chapter 1 - Much longer than "four score and seven years ago" Thomas Watts and his wife, Katharine came to Ohio from Virginia. For four decades he was the educational and cultural leader of the community.
From my youth up I knew "Aunt Katie Watts" and knew about "Uncle Tommy Watts" from my forebears who had been his pupils and who revered his memory.
During the long life with which the Creator has satisfied me, I have known seven generations of the descendants of the talented Virginian and his gentle, soft-spoken wife.
Chapter2 - Friends are congratulating John and Bertha Watts Mount on their daughter, Marilyn's, being chosen Presidential Scholar, and having honors bestowed upon her by the President in ceremonies at the White House. Who can be so ecstatic about this as Dusty Miller, for who else had a double-cousinish kinship with her grandfather and sat with him in a country school?
And who, indeed, but the great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Watts could merit such high honors?
Chapter 3 - At Blanchester High School commencement, Sharon Watts, great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Watts, won the class honors, including a scholarship to Miami University.
Not so incidentally as factually, Sharon's brother, David, was high man on Miam's totem pole at the recent commencement.
Footnote - "Surprised?" No, I was expecting it.
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio
11/8/1963
DUSTY MILLER STILL MAKING LECTURE ROUNDS
A feature story on Thurman (Dusty) Miller, native of Marshall and retired newspaperman, appeared in the Monday edition of the Columbus Citizen-Journal. Dusty started his career by wring country newsletters while still a youth in the Marshall community. The story follows:
Thurman (Dusty Miller, 81, retired newspaper editor and cracker barrel philosopher, has never lost his "love of people."
"It's just a Jack Nicklaus mashie shot to the Kroger store and I know all the girls over there," he winks. Dusty's wife, Grace, his Wilmington College sweetheart, smiles patiently.
The couple moved to 1783 Ridgecliff Road, Upper Arlington, three years ago, after he wrote "30" to a 55-year newspaper career. He said they moved here to be near their son.
The son is Eugene J. Miller, 2442 Kensington Road, Upper Arlington, public relations counsel for the Portland Cement Association. There's another son, Thurman of Indianapolis, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
"In 1908 a professor friend of mine bought the weekly paper and persuaded me to help put it out. Six years later we merged the other two weeklies and created the daily Wilmington News-Journal."
In 1920 U. S. Senator Warren G. Harding was president of the Ohio Republican Editors Association and Dusty was its secretary.
Dusty leaded on an age old cedi: "Stop before they know you're going to!" in announcing his retirement in 1960. It marked the end of a half century of daily columns.
One avenue of activity was still open. For many years Dusty had given "talks" to Scouts, Sunday School classes, fraternal, service, civic groups and before corporate executives.
"Don't preach, be humorous and brief, and you can't miss being a good speaker," he advises. This winter Dusty will make his 10,000th "talk."
Name: Thurman Miller
Last Residence: 43221 Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States of America
Born: 28 Dec 1881
Died: Apr 1977
State (Year) SSN issued: Ohio (1952-1953)
Ohio Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2002
Name: H T Miller
Birth Date: Est. 1882
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence City: Upper Arlington
Residence County: Franklin
Residence State: Ohio
Residence Country: United States
Death Date: 11 Apr 1977
Hospital of Death: MT Carmel Medical Center
City of Death: Columbus (Pt)
County of Death: Franklin
Certificate: 026316
Age at Death: 95
Certifier: Physician
Marital Status: Married
Census Tract: 6420
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio
3/20/1962
"Dusty" Miller Paid Tribute at Wilmington College
Thurman "Dusty" Miller, formerly of Marshall and Hillsboro, was honored at Wilmington College Friday night at a faculty-trustee banquet. Dr. Oscar Boyd, emeritus professor of chemistry, read a framed tribute to "Dusty'.
Presentation of the tribute and the dinner climaxed an all-day meeting on the campus for the trustees. It was planned as a surprise for "Dusty" near the anniversary (April 2) of his 60th year of affiliation with the college.
He enrolled as a freshman at the Quaker school in 1902. He has been a member of the board of trustees for 35 years.
The tribute, signed on behalf of the board of trustees and the faculty by Walter Tangeman, board chairman, and James M. Read, college president, reads as follows:
"Know all men by these presents that April 2, 1962, marks the anniversary of three score years which H. Thurman "Dusty" Miller has spent in love and service to Wilmington College. During these six decades his life has been inseparable from the life of his alma mater.
"Dusty" Miller, newsman, essayist, biographer, lover of mankind, peripatetic emissary of the "Capital of the World"; his writings reflect his real self, his humor, his optimism, his wise and kind philosophy, his faith in eternal goodness.
"High-minded, sweet-souled, with an insight into the hearts of his fellow men that has enabled him to to meet them in all their moods, he has gone through life bringing smiles and cheer and comfort not only to his immediate circle, but to a multitude whom he has never known.
"Meeting all on terms of equality, mixing with the poor, the lowly, the cultured, the rich, Dusty has been a brother to mankind. When we grieved for childhood's happy days and long for mansions in the skies; when people about us have seemed indifferent and our friends only lukewarm; when our environment stifled our budding spirituality, or the frost of jealousy nipped our aspirations, Dusty rebuked our groans and signs and bid us look about on every side to the wonders of creation and the miracle within our grasp. He has lifted us up and restored us to our own.
"Dusty, you are to us the shadow of a mighty rock in a weary land."
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio
11/17/1964
Has Heart Attack
Thurman (Dusty) Miller of Columbus, formerly of Wilmington is recovering following a heart attack last week. A native of the Marshall community, where he started his career as a newspaper man, he is a widely known author and lecturer.
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio
6/25/1965
"Dusty" WRITES ABOUT WATTS 'DESCENDANTS
In his column, "The Grist," Thurman (Dusty) Miller writes in the Columbus Spectator the following comment about Highland County residents:
Chapter 1 - Much longer than "four score and seven years ago" Thomas Watts and his wife, Katharine came to Ohio from Virginia. For four decades he was the educational and cultural leader of the community.
From my youth up I knew "Aunt Katie Watts" and knew about "Uncle Tommy Watts" from my forebears who had been his pupils and who revered his memory.
During the long life with which the Creator has satisfied me, I have known seven generations of the descendants of the talented Virginian and his gentle, soft-spoken wife.
Chapter2 - Friends are congratulating John and Bertha Watts Mount on their daughter, Marilyn's, being chosen Presidential Scholar, and having honors bestowed upon her by the President in ceremonies at the White House. Who can be so ecstatic about this as Dusty Miller, for who else had a double-cousinish kinship with her grandfather and sat with him in a country school?
And who, indeed, but the great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Watts could merit such high honors?
Chapter 3 - At Blanchester High School commencement, Sharon Watts, great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Watts, won the class honors, including a scholarship to Miami University.
Not so incidentally as factually, Sharon's brother, David, was high man on Miam's totem pole at the recent commencement.
Footnote - "Surprised?" No, I was expecting it.
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio
11/8/1963
DUSTY MILLER STILL MAKING LECTURE ROUNDS
A feature story on Thurman (Dusty) Miller, native of Marshall and retired newspaperman, appeared in the Monday edition of the Columbus Citizen-Journal. Dusty started his career by wring country newsletters while still a youth in the Marshall community. The story follows:
Thurman (Dusty Miller, 81, retired newspaper editor and cracker barrel philosopher, has never lost his "love of people."
"It's just a Jack Nicklaus mashie shot to the Kroger store and I know all the girls over there," he winks. Dusty's wife, Grace, his Wilmington College sweetheart, smiles patiently.
The couple moved to 1783 Ridgecliff Road, Upper Arlington, three years ago, after he wrote "30" to a 55-year newspaper career. He said they moved here to be near their son.
The son is Eugene J. Miller, 2442 Kensington Road, Upper Arlington, public relations counsel for the Portland Cement Association. There's another son, Thurman of Indianapolis, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
"In 1908 a professor friend of mine bought the weekly paper and persuaded me to help put it out. Six years later we merged the other two weeklies and created the daily Wilmington News-Journal."
In 1920 U. S. Senator Warren G. Harding was president of the Ohio Republican Editors Association and Dusty was its secretary.
Dusty leaded on an age old cedi: "Stop before they know you're going to!" in announcing his retirement in 1960. It marked the end of a half century of daily columns.
One avenue of activity was still open. For many years Dusty had given "talks" to Scouts, Sunday School classes, fraternal, service, civic groups and before corporate executives.
"Don't preach, be humorous and brief, and you can't miss being a good speaker," he advises. This winter Dusty will make his 10,000th "talk."
Social Security Death Index
Name: Thurman Miller
Last Residence: 43221 Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States of America
Born: 28 Dec 1881
Died: Apr 1977
State (Year) SSN issued: Ohio (1952-1953)
Ohio Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2002
Name: H T Miller
Birth Date: Est. 1882
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence City: Upper Arlington
Residence County: Franklin
Residence State: Ohio
Residence Country: United States
Death Date: 11 Apr 1977
Hospital of Death: MT Carmel Medical Center
City of Death: Columbus (Pt)
County of Death: Franklin
Certificate: 026316
Age at Death: 95
Certifier: Physician
Marital Status: Married
Census Tract: 6420
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio
3/20/1962
"Dusty" Miller Paid Tribute at Wilmington College
Thurman "Dusty" Miller, formerly of Marshall and Hillsboro, was honored at Wilmington College Friday night at a faculty-trustee banquet. Dr. Oscar Boyd, emeritus professor of chemistry, read a framed tribute to "Dusty'.
Presentation of the tribute and the dinner climaxed an all-day meeting on the campus for the trustees. It was planned as a surprise for "Dusty" near the anniversary (April 2) of his 60th year of affiliation with the college.
He enrolled as a freshman at the Quaker school in 1902. He has been a member of the board of trustees for 35 years.
The tribute, signed on behalf of the board of trustees and the faculty by Walter Tangeman, board chairman, and James M. Read, college president, reads as follows:
"Know all men by these presents that April 2, 1962, marks the anniversary of three score years which H. Thurman "Dusty" Miller has spent in love and service to Wilmington College. During these six decades his life has been inseparable from the life of his alma mater.
"Dusty" Miller, newsman, essayist, biographer, lover of mankind, peripatetic emissary of the "Capital of the World"; his writings reflect his real self, his humor, his optimism, his wise and kind philosophy, his faith in eternal goodness.
"High-minded, sweet-souled, with an insight into the hearts of his fellow men that has enabled him to to meet them in all their moods, he has gone through life bringing smiles and cheer and comfort not only to his immediate circle, but to a multitude whom he has never known.
"Meeting all on terms of equality, mixing with the poor, the lowly, the cultured, the rich, Dusty has been a brother to mankind. When we grieved for childhood's happy days and long for mansions in the skies; when people about us have seemed indifferent and our friends only lukewarm; when our environment stifled our budding spirituality, or the frost of jealousy nipped our aspirations, Dusty rebuked our groans and signs and bid us look about on every side to the wonders of creation and the miracle within our grasp. He has lifted us up and restored us to our own.
"Dusty, you are to us the shadow of a mighty rock in a weary land."
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio
11/17/1964
Has Heart Attack
Thurman (Dusty) Miller of Columbus, formerly of Wilmington is recovering following a heart attack last week. A native of the Marshall community, where he started his career as a newspaper man, he is a widely known author and lecturer.
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio
6/25/1965
"Dusty" WRITES ABOUT WATTS 'DESCENDANTS
In his column, "The Grist," Thurman (Dusty) Miller writes in the Columbus Spectator the following comment about Highland County residents:
Chapter 1 - Much longer than "four score and seven years ago" Thomas Watts and his wife, Katharine came to Ohio from Virginia. For four decades he was the educational and cultural leader of the community.
From my youth up I knew "Aunt Katie Watts" and knew about "Uncle Tommy Watts" from my forebears who had been his pupils and who revered his memory.
During the long life with which the Creator has satisfied me, I have known seven generations of the descendants of the talented Virginian and his gentle, soft-spoken wife.
Chapter2 - Friends are congratulating John and Bertha Watts Mount on their daughter, Marilyn's, being chosen Presidential Scholar, and having honors bestowed upon her by the President in ceremonies at the White House. Who can be so ecstatic about this as Dusty Miller, for who else had a double-cousinish kinship with her grandfather and sat with him in a country school?
And who, indeed, but the great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Watts could merit such high honors?
Chapter 3 - At Blanchester High School commencement, Sharon Watts, great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Watts, won the class honors, including a scholarship to Miami University.
Not so incidentally as factually, Sharon's brother, David, was high man on Miam's totem pole at the recent commencement.
Footnote - "Surprised?" No, I was expecting it.
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio
11/8/1963
DUSTY MILLER STILL MAKING LECTURE ROUNDS
A feature story on Thurman (Dusty) Miller, native of Marshall and retired newspaperman, appeared in the Monday edition of the Columbus Citizen-Journal. Dusty started his career by wring country newsletters while still a youth in the Marshall community. The story follows:
Thurman (Dusty Miller, 81, retired newspaper editor and cracker barrel philosopher, has never lost his "love of people."
"It's just a Jack Nicklaus mashie shot to the Kroger store and I know all the girls over there," he winks. Dusty's wife, Grace, his Wilmington College sweetheart, smiles patiently.
The couple moved to 1783 Ridgecliff Road, Upper Arlington, three years ago, after he wrote "30" to a 55-year newspaper career. He said they moved here to be near their son.
The son is Eugene J. Miller, 2442 Kensington Road, Upper Arlington, public relations counsel for the Portland Cement Association. There's another son, Thurman of Indianapolis, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
"In 1908 a professor friend of mine bought the weekly paper and persuaded me to help put it out. Six years later we merged the other two weeklies and created the daily Wilmington News-Journal."
In 1920 U. S. Senator Warren G. Harding was president of the Ohio Republican Editors Association and Dusty was its secretary.
Dusty leaded on an age old cedi: "Stop before they know you're going to!" in announcing his retirement in 1960. It marked the end of a half century of daily columns.
One avenue of activity was still open. For many years Dusty had given "talks" to Scouts, Sunday School classes, fraternal, service, civic groups and before corporate executives.
"Don't preach, be humorous and brief, and you can't miss being a good speaker," he advises. This winter Dusty will make his 10,000th "talk."
Name: Thurman Miller
Last Residence: 43221 Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States of America
Born: 28 Dec 1881
Died: Apr 1977
State (Year) SSN issued: Ohio (1952-1953)
Ohio Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2002
Name: H T Miller
Birth Date: Est. 1882
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence City: Upper Arlington
Residence County: Franklin
Residence State: Ohio
Residence Country: United States
Death Date: 11 Apr 1977
Hospital of Death: MT Carmel Medical Center
City of Death: Columbus (Pt)
County of Death: Franklin
Certificate: 026316
Age at Death: 95
Certifier: Physician
Marital Status: Married
Census Tract: 6420
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio
3/20/1962
"Dusty" Miller Paid Tribute at Wilmington College
Thurman "Dusty" Miller, formerly of Marshall and Hillsboro, was honored at Wilmington College Friday night at a faculty-trustee banquet. Dr. Oscar Boyd, emeritus professor of chemistry, read a framed tribute to "Dusty'.
Presentation of the tribute and the dinner climaxed an all-day meeting on the campus for the trustees. It was planned as a surprise for "Dusty" near the anniversary (April 2) of his 60th year of affiliation with the college.
He enrolled as a freshman at the Quaker school in 1902. He has been a member of the board of trustees for 35 years.
The tribute, signed on behalf of the board of trustees and the faculty by Walter Tangeman, board chairman, and James M. Read, college president, reads as follows:
"Know all men by these presents that April 2, 1962, marks the anniversary of three score years which H. Thurman "Dusty" Miller has spent in love and service to Wilmington College. During these six decades his life has been inseparable from the life of his alma mater.
"Dusty" Miller, newsman, essayist, biographer, lover of mankind, peripatetic emissary of the "Capital of the World"; his writings reflect his real self, his humor, his optimism, his wise and kind philosophy, his faith in eternal goodness.
"High-minded, sweet-souled, with an insight into the hearts of his fellow men that has enabled him to to meet them in all their moods, he has gone through life bringing smiles and cheer and comfort not only to his immediate circle, but to a multitude whom he has never known.
"Meeting all on terms of equality, mixing with the poor, the lowly, the cultured, the rich, Dusty has been a brother to mankind. When we grieved for childhood's happy days and long for mansions in the skies; when people about us have seemed indifferent and our friends only lukewarm; when our environment stifled our budding spirituality, or the frost of jealousy nipped our aspirations, Dusty rebuked our groans and signs and bid us look about on every side to the wonders of creation and the miracle within our grasp. He has lifted us up and restored us to our own.
"Dusty, you are to us the shadow of a mighty rock in a weary land."
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio
11/17/1964
Has Heart Attack
Thurman (Dusty) Miller of Columbus, formerly of Wilmington is recovering following a heart attack last week. A native of the Marshall community, where he started his career as a newspaper man, he is a widely known author and lecturer.
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio
6/25/1965
"Dusty" WRITES ABOUT WATTS 'DESCENDANTS
In his column, "The Grist," Thurman (Dusty) Miller writes in the Columbus Spectator the following comment about Highland County residents:
Chapter 1 - Much longer than "four score and seven years ago" Thomas Watts and his wife, Katharine came to Ohio from Virginia. For four decades he was the educational and cultural leader of the community.
From my youth up I knew "Aunt Katie Watts" and knew about "Uncle Tommy Watts" from my forebears who had been his pupils and who revered his memory.
During the long life with which the Creator has satisfied me, I have known seven generations of the descendants of the talented Virginian and his gentle, soft-spoken wife.
Chapter2 - Friends are congratulating John and Bertha Watts Mount on their daughter, Marilyn's, being chosen Presidential Scholar, and having honors bestowed upon her by the President in ceremonies at the White House. Who can be so ecstatic about this as Dusty Miller, for who else had a double-cousinish kinship with her grandfather and sat with him in a country school?
And who, indeed, but the great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Watts could merit such high honors?
Chapter 3 - At Blanchester High School commencement, Sharon Watts, great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Watts, won the class honors, including a scholarship to Miami University.
Not so incidentally as factually, Sharon's brother, David, was high man on Miam's totem pole at the recent commencement.
Footnote - "Surprised?" No, I was expecting it.
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio
11/8/1963
DUSTY MILLER STILL MAKING LECTURE ROUNDS
A feature story on Thurman (Dusty) Miller, native of Marshall and retired newspaperman, appeared in the Monday edition of the Columbus Citizen-Journal. Dusty started his career by wring country newsletters while still a youth in the Marshall community. The story follows:
Thurman (Dusty Miller, 81, retired newspaper editor and cracker barrel philosopher, has never lost his "love of people."
"It's just a Jack Nicklaus mashie shot to the Kroger store and I know all the girls over there," he winks. Dusty's wife, Grace, his Wilmington College sweetheart, smiles patiently.
The couple moved to 1783 Ridgecliff Road, Upper Arlington, three years ago, after he wrote "30" to a 55-year newspaper career. He said they moved here to be near their son.
The son is Eugene J. Miller, 2442 Kensington Road, Upper Arlington, public relations counsel for the Portland Cement Association. There's another son, Thurman of Indianapolis, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
"In 1908 a professor friend of mine bought the weekly paper and persuaded me to help put it out. Six years later we merged the other two weeklies and created the daily Wilmington News-Journal."
In 1920 U. S. Senator Warren G. Harding was president of the Ohio Republican Editors Association and Dusty was its secretary.
Dusty leaded on an age old cedi: "Stop before they know you're going to!" in announcing his retirement in 1960. It marked the end of a half century of daily columns.
One avenue of activity was still open. For many years Dusty had given "talks" to Scouts, Sunday School classes, fraternal, service, civic groups and before corporate executives.
"Don't preach, be humorous and brief, and you can't miss being a good speaker," he advises. This winter Dusty will make his 10,000th "talk."
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