Charles H. Miner Jr. ’31

Charlie Miner died Aug. 13, 1999. He prepared at Wyoming Seminary and the Hill School. At Princeton he was a member of the Glee Club, assistant manager of wrestling, and a member of Key and Seal Club.

He earned his LLB degree in 1934 at Harvard, and entered the law profession in Wilkes-Barre, where he resided until May 1942. He was then commissioned by the Navy and served as an intelligence and administrative officer until Oct. 1945, when he was discharged as a lt. com. He returned to the law firm of James, McLean, Silverblatt and Miner, where he remained until he was elected v.p. and trust officer of the First Natl. Bank of Wilkes-Barre. In 1974 he resigned and went back to the law, this time at the firm Silverblatt & Townend.

Charlie was chairman of the board of Pennsylvania Millers Mutual Insurance Co., on the board of directors of Wilkes U., Childrens' Service Center of Wyoming Valley, and Osterhaut Free Library, where he was a former president; he was also a past president of the Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce and a director of the Hollenback Cemetery Assn.

Surviving are two daughters, Amy Miner Fleming and Margaret Lea; two step-daughters, Lindsley Homrighausen and Emily Mahon; and four grandchildren. The class extends its warmest sympathy to the entire family.

The Class of 1931