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The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., October 2, 1980, page 12

HENRY A. MILLER

Henry A. Miller of Goldendale, for many years in a rancher in the Centerville area, died Wednesday, Sept. 24 at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center in Portland, Ore. He was 73.
Miller was born in Goldendale on May 16, 1907, to John A. and Elizabeth Miller. He attended Goldendale schools for twelve years and graduated magna cum laude in accounting from the University of Washington in 1929. In 1933 he married Florence Scott and they farmed in the Centerville area until his retirement in 1972.
The couple moved to Goldendale this year to a new home built by Miller with the assistance of family and friends.
Miller gave much of his time to civic endeavors as well as his family. He served as leader of the Central Klickitat 4-H. Club, director of the Centerville School Board, president of the Goldendale PTA, a member and master of both the Centerville and Pomona Granges, and director of the Centerville cemetery district.
He was a Klickitat County Commissioner for 12 years, a founder and director of Klickitat Valley Bank, president of the Klickitat County Historical Society, PUD commissioner, Republican county chairman and a member of the Washington State Roads Commission.
Mr. Miller is survived by his wife, Florence; two sons, John, a colonel in the U.S. Army stationed in Hawaii, and James, a senior construction supervisor from Issaquah; six grand sons, Douglas, Jeffrey, John, James, Kenneth and Michael; two granddaughters, Larci and Sheri; two great-grand children, Christopher and Paula; a brother, Jerome of Glenwood; four sisters, Mary Jaekel of Centerville and Zelma Taylor, Helen Reierson and Jean Hannifan, all of The Dalles; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a brother, Reginald.
Remembrance services for Miller were held Saturday, September 27 at the Goldendale Grange Hall. Eulogies were offered by Joe Dressel, William Garner, Grace Forry and Wayne Eshelman. His six grandchildren served as pallbearers and the family recognized all friends and relatives as honorary pallbearers.
Interment was in the Centerville Cemetery with the Rev. William Taylor, a family friend from Portland, Ore., officiating.