Paul Raymond Miller

Paul Raymond Miller, age 91, died on August 18, 2023. He was a graduate of Church Point High School where he played football, ran track and set a track record for the school. After high school, he joined the US Air Force and was stationed in Chicago. With the Korean War imminent, he took leave and returned to Church Point to marry his beloved wife Anna Jane Thibodeaux. He then shipped out to Japan where he was taught to speak Japanese and worked as an Airman First Class. He was a proud member of the American Legion. Mr. Miller met his beloved wife of 61 years, Anna Jane, as teenagers, and after living in Texas for several years and working in the auto body repair business, the pair returned to Louisiana and made a home in Kenner in 1970. He was the true definition of a Louisiana sportsman, for when Mr. Miller was not working a catastrophe as an insurance adjuster for Allstate, he could be found hunting and fishing with friends and family. He and his wife were founding parishioners of Nativity of Our Lord Parish which later became Divine Mercy. Bags of clothes and toiletries to go to the homeless could always be found on the front porch of their home since they spent their weekends feeding the homeless in empty parking lots in downtown New Orleans. Mr. Miller loved to cook and he was a very generous friend and neighbor. He was very involved in local politics campaigning for politicians that he believed in as well as attending commissioner and commissioner in charge school to be able to work all of the allocations with eventually getting one of the voting polls in their home for several years. He was very proud of his Cajun heritage with Cajun French being his native tongue until attending school in the first grade. Mr. Miller was preceded in death by his lifelong sweetheart Anna Jane and his parents Noah and Avay Miller. He was the loving father of Karl Miller (Tammie) and Paula Miller and grandfather of Taryn Rogers (Lee), Jenna Ryder (Brian) and Adam, Cody and Benjamin Dupuis, as well as the great-grandfather of Lendon, Bennett and Greyson Rogers and James and Jude Ryder. The family would like to thank the COMPASSUS Hospice team for all of their kindness during this time. It was a God-send having all of you in our lives and helping us with this journey. We could not have gotten through this without his nurse Jenny, his aide Sara and his volunteer Josh. Relatives and friends are invited to attend a Funeral Mass on Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 11:00 AM at L.A. Muhleisen & Son Funeral Home, 2607 Williams Blvd, Kenner, LA 70062. Visitation will begin at 9 AM. Interment will immediately follow in All Saints Mausoleum and conclude with Military Honors.

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Paul Raymond Miller

April 2, 1932 - August 18, 2023