Transcribed and submitted by:

Robert L. Haddock

 

Surnames: MILLER, HARDCASTLE, RUCKER, WOODARD, O'NEAL, NILES, BURGIN, DIXON, LEDBETTER, JORDAN, FARMER, MANKE

 

WACO TRIBUNE-HERALD

Waco, McLennan Co., Texas

Monday, February 14, 1994

 

William Harley Miller,
retired city employee

 

     William Harley (Bill) Miller of Cego, a retired Waco city employee, died Saturday in Lorena. He was 80.

     Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Cego Baptist Church, the Rev. Glen Jonas and the Rev. Mike Seay officiating. Burial will be at Cego Cemetery.

     Mr. Miller was born June 18, 1913, in Bruceville. He married Dora Mae Hardcastle on March 4, 1938, in Bruceville. He was a plant foreman at the Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant in McGregor during World War II. He farmed in the Cego and Lorena areas until 1955, when he moved to Waco.

     He retired in 1975 from the city of Waco, where he had been service station supervisor for 20 years. He returned to Cego in 1983. Mr. Miller was a member of Cego Baptist Church.

     A daughter, Carolyn Janet Miller; a grandson, Jason Harley Rucker; and a great-granddaughter, Kristen Elizabeth Woodard, all preceded him in death.

     Survivors include his wife; five sons, Harley Miller, Donie Miller and Eddie Miller, all of Waco, William Miller of Pearland and Billy Miller of Valley Mills; four daughters, Barbara O'Neal of Bruceville, Vivian Evon Niles of Fort Worth, Tomi Burgin of Lorena and Donnel Dixon of Waco; two brothers, W. D. Ledbetter of Waco and Alford Ledbetter of Malone; three sisters, Jan Jordan of Ponca City, Okla., Mary Farmer of Killeen and Louise Manke of Cedar Creek; 21 grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.

     Adams Funeral Home in Marlin is in charge of arrangements.