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 A-l-A, 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 unti11967.

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.