THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, December 6, 1979

 

Rufus M. Miller, 72, who lived at 404 John Anderson Highway, Flagler Beach, died Friday at Bunnell General Hospital after a lengthy illness. Mr. Miller moved to Ocean City - now known as Flagler Beach - in 1919.

He was a former postmaster and city commissioner. He was born in Monticello. In 1919, after his father had died in Tampa during a flu epidemic, he moved to this county. When Fred Hooper was building the Oceanside Highway, later called State Road AlA, he worked on the construction project.

In 1928, Mr. Miller joined the Navy. Twenty years later, he retired as a warrant officer.

President Eisenhower appointed Mr. Miller the postmaster in Flagler Beach in 1954. He served in that job until 1967.

He served as a city commissioner in Flagler Beach for a year and a half, resigning for business reasons.

Mr. Miller was a member of the Community Memorial Church in Flagler Beach; member and past master of Bunnell Masonic Lodge No. 200; past patron of Bunnell Chapter 93, Order of the Eastern Star; past watchman of shepherds, White Shrine No. 10, Daytona Beach; member of Morocco Temple Shrine and the Flagler Beach Citizens Association and was a 32nd degree mason.

Survivors include his widow, Maggie; one son, Joseph, Flagler Beach; three brothers, James and B. T., The Hammock, and L. T., St. Johns Park. Graveside services were conducted Sunday at Espanola Cemetery, with the Reverend Shelton Brooks officiating.