Michael Douglass Miller

Michael Douglass Miller -FORT VALLEY - Michael Douglass Miller, 53, died while on a business trip to Istanbul, Turkey on April 12, 2007. Services will be 11A.M. Thursday, April 19, 2007 at Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church in Fort Valley with The Rev. Drs. Donald and Ruth Tate officiating. Burial will be in Ruckersville, Virginia. -Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, to the late Douglass Harrison and Helen Gibson Miller, Mike was a graduate of Woodberry Forest School and Virginia Military Institute. He was the managing director of the ocean marine division of Allen Insurance Group, and had clients in forty nine countries. Prior to moving to Fort Valley, Mike spent the first twenty years of his career in the broadcast new media and won numerous national awards, including an Oscar. He and his wife, Debbie, have lived in Kentucky, Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Texas. -Survivors: his wife of almost twenty five years, Debbie Cook Miller of Fort Valley, originally of Kentucky; sister, Patrice Miller Lifon of Canton, GA; nieces, Anne Douglass Ligon and Sarah Elizabeth Ligon, of Canton, GA; aunt, Charlotte Burrill of Fredericksburg, VA; and several cousins in Virginia. -In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be sent to Saint Andrew's Memorial Fund, 309 Central Ave., Fort Valley, GA 31030. -Rooks Funeral Home in Fort Valley has charge of arrangements.