Mr. Richard Joseph Miller

Richard Joseph Miller was born in Long Beach California oneeptember 23, 1943 to the Revs. Clarence and Vinita Miller, both Ordained Elders in the Methodist Church, ministers who inspired both in Richard and in his elder sisters and brother sisters (Ruth, Anna aneed) a love of the beauty of the natural world and an extended love, through God???s own love, to all of humankind. Richard received his Bachelors of Arts in Education from California Western Uneersity where he was certified in Middle school teaching. Thereafter, he was employed by the Huntingtoneeach Middle Schools public school system for over 36 years. There he repeatedly received recognition as a ???Mentor Teacher,??? for his contributions to core courses that included instruction in the Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science. Richard appreciated his family???s reverence for nature aneenjoyed recreational activities which included, for example, swimming around the peer in Huntingtoneeach and riding on and repairing motorcycles for trips to many national parks in California and Arizona. As a member of his own family, he was loving, generously helpful, and caring. He extended these genee traits to his new family of care givers based in the Huntingtoneeach???caregivers who cared for him graciously in his own home, and were ineed with him whenee passed into eternity, on May 3, 2015. His immediate family, his cousins, and his family of care-givers, celebrated his life at a memorial service at the Monrovia Uneed Methodist Church in California on May 23, 2015. He was laid to rest in Bynum Uneed Methodist Cemetery near Pittsboro, NC, on July 23, 2015.