Woodrow (Woody) Forrest Miller, 91, passed from this life to heaven on Thursday, March 5,
2009, at Hudson Memorial Nursing Home in El Dorado.

He was born in Duncannon, PA, on June 15, 1917, the youngest of five children born to Aquilla
Emory Miller and Della Finkenbinder Miller.

He served in the U. S. Army from 1941 through 1945. During that time he was with the 71st
Coast Artillery and Anti-aircraft in Fort Story, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. He also saw
action in the Po Valley Campaign across Northwest Italy in the spring of 1945. During his tour
of duty in Washigton, D.C. manning anti-aircraft artillery atop the White House, he met the love
of his life, Patricia Johnston, a civilian employee with the U. S. Navy also serving in
Washington, D.C. and quickly married her.

After his military service he and Pat lived for a short while in Branson, Missouri, before settling
down for a life in South Arkansas oil industry.

He was an avid fisherman and deer hunter, enjoying family barbeques and fish fries. He loved
attending baseball and football games and watching them on television. He loved to travel,
returning to his beloved hometown in Pennsylvania almost every year until the past two years of
his life. As a commited Christian, he also loved the churches he belonged to during his lifetime,
West Side Baptist Church and Ebenezer Baptist Church.

He was preceded in death by his father and mother, his sister Ida Bornman and his brother Emory
Miller, all of Pennsylvania. Woody is survived by his wife Pat to whom he was married 65 years,
and two sisters Charlotte Bornman and Mabel Sheaffer, both of Pennsylvania. Other survivors
include his son Wayne Miller and his wife Phyllis, his daughter Sharon Johnson and her husband
Charlie, all of El Dorado, and his son Roger Miller and his wife Audree of Little Rock, three
grandchildren, Phillip Miller of Goodman, Missouri, Donna Thurman of El Dorado, and Michael
Johnson of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and four great-grandchildren of whom he was very proud:
Alyssa Miller, Austin Miller, Abigal Miller and Caylee Garner.

Funeral will be on Sunday, March 8, 2009, at 2:30 P.M. at Ebenezer Baptist Church on North
Wyatt Drive with the Revs. Phillip Miller and Steve Pelz officiating. Visitation will be Saturday,
March 7, 2009 from 5-7P.M. at Perry's Funeral Chapels in El Dorado.

Memorials may be made to Ebenezer Baptist Church , 3408 North Wyatt Drive, El Dorado, AR
71730 or American Kidney Fund, 6110 Executive Blvd., Suite 1010, Rockville, MD 20852.