Evan Jones Miller ’17

Ev Miller, well known in Harrisburg, Pa., as a historian, who became an authority on the city's rich past, died Nov. 20, 1997, at his retirement home in County Meadows, Hershey, Pa., just six weeks short of his 101st birthday.

A graduate of Harrisburg Academy, Ev was a sergeant during WWI and served with the U.S. Base Hospital in France. In 1920 he became associated with Miller Bros. & Co., a real estate firm that had been established by his father in 1903. A member of the American Inst. of Real Estate Appraisers since 1932, he was governor of the Society of R. E. Appraisers from 1962-64. He was a member, elder, and trustee of Market Square Presbyterian Church; a member of the Selective Service Board during WWII; a past president of the Dauphin County Historical Society; the oldest member of the Harrisburg Rotary Club; and a member of the Harrisburg Consistory, Zembo Shrine Temple, and the Sons of the American Revolution.

He married Ruth Wills in 1923. She died in June 1983. Ev attended his 80th reunion in June 1997, at which time, as the oldest alumnus present, he was awarded the silver cane. He is survived by three daughters -- Martha Jane Vayhinger, Ruth Woodcock, and Priscilla Hart, six grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren, to all of whom we extend our deepest sympathy. The class mourns with them the loss of this outstanding classmate.

The Class of 1917