James Robert Miller

Robert Miller was a hard working, family oriented man who had his share of bad luck.

As a child, he had polio causing him to walk with a slight limp as one foot was turned in.

During the depression, he worked many jobs...whatever he could find. He never owned or learned to drive a car, but walked miles to work on a local farm. Worked sun-up to sun-down and then walked home. When working as a Guard during the building of WARD High School in KC KS, he thwarted several robberies of construction materials. He was shot once and stabbed twice during these events. The best job he ever had was as a parts clerk in the Bomber factory during WW II. He also worked at TS James, a dealer in fine china, where his oldest son, Harmon D. Miller, worked as a supervisor. In 1931, at the beginning of the great depression, the four room house that he and his family (Wife and 4 children at that time) lived in on N. White burned to the ground. Insurance money was insufficient to rebuild the entire house so all they got was the 4 outside walls and a roof.

The inside was just stubbed and they used cardboard boxes to make walls. It wasn't until his death that the family finally managed to remodel and install indoor plumbing. (1963)

However that little house saw a lot of living and was full of love that will never be forgotten.