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Arthur Raymond Miller

My father, Chief Boatswains Mate Arthur Raymond Miller, served in the Coast Guard from 1938 to 1946 and he died in August, 1990. His last memory of the Coast Guard was in 1990 when I was reading to him about the 200th anniversary because his eyesight was failing him. The Coast Guard was very important to my father. I remember the many stories he told while I was growing up. He told of how he was keeper of a lighthouse. He told how he had to keep a light trained on a window at Alcatraz prison during a prison break. He told of how he had to scour the waters under the Golden Gate Bridge for jumpers. He also told how the Alcatraz prison did the ships laundry and he always wondered if Al Capone might have washed his shorts. My father had a couple of nicknames, which were 'Dusty Miller' and 'Cowboy'. The Coast Guard was very important to my father and I am proud that it was a sweet memory for him.

04/08/99 Submitted by: Nora Miller-Bangerter (wban@lynchburg.net)

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