Orr Daniel "Buster" Miller, youngest son of Daniel Webster Miller and Ella Estella (Gibson) Miller, was born on the old State Road east of Eureka, Kansas, on February 15, 1898; and passed away at Hutchinson, Kansas, on February 1, 1985. He attended Union School and the Little Flock Baptist Church, which was located on the family farm. As a young man he moved, with his parents, to Neal, Kansas. On May 20, 1923, he was united in marriage, at the Neal Methodist Church, to Gwendolyn Calista Hamilton. He converted a Model A Ford into a school bus and drove one of the school routes for the Neal Consolidated School for many years. In 1958 he moved to Piqua, Kansas, where he worked in the Piqua Coop for a number of years. He moved to Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1967. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, one son, Marion, one sister, Alma Flummer, two brothers, Ernest and Bert, and a half-brother, Edward. He is survived by two sons, Richard of South Hutchinson and Ernest of Wichita; and by seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Graveside services were held on Monday, Feb. 4, 1985 at 2 P.M. in the Neal Cemetery. Rev. Larry Buss, pastor of the Neal United Methodist Church, officiated." -- Yates Center News, February 7, 1985, p. 13.

 

Submitted by: Ernest Miller, 13302 W. 72nd St., Shawnee, KS 66216-4156 on November 18, 2006.

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