Date of birth: 24 Mar 1886
Date of death: 23 Mar 1952

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Burial Information

Section 04 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0190-90
Status: Occupied

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Notes

Obituary

John R. Miles, Jr.
Rights Held Here
Member Of Well Known Holmes Family Passes In Florida

Funeral services for John R. Miles, Jr. of Fort Myers, Florida, were held March 28 at 10:30 a.m. in the home of his sister, Mrs Joe H. Moore, in Lexington. The Rev. Harmon L. Smith officiated Burial was in Odd Fellows Cemetery with Southern in charge. He died on March 23rd following a three years illness.

A native of Holmes County, Mr. Miles was born March 24, 1886, at Lexington. He married Janet O’Neal Dumler at Duncan. He was a Mason and a member of the Methodist Church of which he was a stewart for several years.

Surviving are his wife, one step-son, Ernest W. Dumler of Pittsburgh, Pa., two brothers, D. B. Miles and G. W. Miles of Lexington and two sisters, Mrs. Marvin Stanley and Mrs. Joe H. Moore of Lexington.

Active pallbearers were M. D. Dunn, Oscar Wolfe, Dr. H. E. Day, Sam Patero, all of Duncan, W. H. Fincher. Jr., Pat M. Barrett, Harold Hammett, E. W. Hooker, all of Lexington.

Honorary pallbearers were B. S. Beall, Jr., Paul Lindholm, Phil Henrich and Baxter Wilson, all of Lexington.

 

The Durant News – Durant, MS
April 03, 1952, vol. 93, no. 30

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Family Members

Spouse
LaMira Jeannette "Janet" O'Neal Miles
1888–1971

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