LOXLEY, Ala. – Charles H. Miller Jr., 64, a resident of Andrea Avenue in Benton, died Friday, Jan. 25, from injuries sustained in a tragic automobile accident which also took the lives of his beloved wife Emelda and daughter Mona Jean Carter.

He was born on Jan. 20, 1944, in Weymouth, Mass., the son of Charles H. Sr. and Elizabeth (Cummings) Miller and attended school in Braintree, Mass.

On Aug. 2, 1966, he married Emelda Boucher at St. Rose of Lima Church in Jay. They made their home on Ludden Drive in Jay until 1988, when they moved to Benton. He worked as an instrument man at International Paper Co. in Jay until 1987, when he went to work for Scott Paper Co. in Winslow from 1988 to 1992, and later transferred to Madison Paper Co. in Madison in 1992 retiring in 2007.

He had been a communicant of St. Rose of Lima Church in Jay. He and his family enjoyed their camp on Canton Lake and riding the jet-ski, snow skiing, playing dominoes and cards and spending time with his children Dan and Mona Jean. They also looked forward to the plays at the Community Little Theater in Auburn.

He is survived by a son, Dan Miller and his wife, Amy, of Hampden; a mother-in-law, Rita Boucher of St. Cloud, Fla.; a son-in-law, Scott Carter of Alabama; five grandchildren; a brother, Robert Miller of Braintree, Mass.; two brothers-in-law, Bernard Boucher and his wife, Jackie, of St. Cloud, Fla., and Paul Boucher and his wife, Claire, of Livermore Falls; two sisters-in-law, Bernice Adams and her husband, Will, of Jay and Betty Plaisted and her husband, George, of Jay.

He was predeceased by his parents; and father-in-law, Henry Boucher.