Edwin Miller

Edwin B. Miller, a retired insurance agent and World War II Veteran, died on December 22, 2011 at Augsburg Lutheran Home. The Howard county resident was 91 years old at his death, a retiree from Justin Hancock Life Insurance Company after a 35 year career as agent, registered representative and staff manage. He was born in Baltimore, attended city schools and business.

Mr. Miller was employed at Aberdeen Proving Ground in the small arms section prior to enlisting in the Navy at the outbreak of World War II. Three and a half years at sea were served abroad the same ship, which received six battle stars for enemy actions, a German U-boat torpedoing in the Atlantic at the invasion of French Morocco, Africa, and invasion landings at the Marshall, Mariannas, Palau, Philippine and Iwo Jima Islands in the Pacific. When Japan surrendered, he was transferred from the Pacific to the Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Maryland, to serve as a company commander in recruit training.

Trained in lifesaving techniques, he rescued six persons from drowning; one later succumbed to injuries received in the water.

An amateur genealogist, he researched his family history back to the early English settlements in Southern Maryland in the 1600s.

His great, great, great grandfather was recognized for patriotic service in the Revolutionary War.

His great, great grandfather, Andrew Miller, a Baltimore Militia man, captured by the British in the War of 1812 at the Battle of North Point, taken abroad a man-o-war, transported to Bermuda, released several months later in a prisoner exchange, and returned to Baltimore.

Paternal and maternal grandfathers served in the Civil War, his maternal grandfather in a New York State Calvary unit; the paternal grandfather with a Maryland Light Artillery company.

Mr. Miller was a former member of the Fleet Reserve Club, Annapolis, Maryland, American Legion Post #109, Catonsville Lions Club, and the Elks Club, New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Family and friends may call at the family owned AMBROSE FUNERAL HOME, INC., 1328 Sulphur Spring Rd., Arbutus, MD 21227 on Monday from 3PM to 5 PM and 7PM to 9PM, where a service will be held on Tuesday at 11AM. Interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Woodlawn.

He is predeceased by his parents the late Richard and the late Letitia Miller, and his wife, the late Helen B. Miller (nee Maye) He is survived by two daughters, Sandra E. Manning and Nancy G. Piechocki; three grandchildren, Halene F. Lloyd, Steven E. and Richard E. Piechocki; a sister, Dolly M. Brehm. He is also survived by five nieces, eight nephews, great nieces and nephews. Two sisters, Letitia S. Kessler and Carrie I. Foreacre, and three brother, Francis R., Lyman K., and Charles H. Miller predeceased him.