William   A.   Miller
1951 – 2009
LEBANON, N.H. — William A. Miller, 58, of Newfane, Vt., passed away peacefully on Monday, Aug. 31, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., after a very brief and unexpected illness.  William was known as Bill by his family and friends outside the Brattleboro area.  His many friends, colleagues and co-workers in Vermont knew him as Willie.
He was born on April 30, 1951, in Lewiston, the second of three children of Robert and Katherine (Whiting) Miller.  His family moved to upstate New York in 1964.  He graduated first in his high school class from New Hartford Central High School in New Hartford, N.Y., in 1969 and with honors from Williams College in 1973.
He spent several summers during and after college working for the Forest Service in Swan Valley, Idaho.  Throughout his life he regaled his family and friends with stories of his adventures fighting forest fires, horseback riding on trails with vistas with no end and sleeping in his bedroll under the stars.
After he finished college, he worked for the Southern Vermont Conservation Society in Brattleboro for a time and found a home for the rest of his life in Windham County, Vt.  He realized his strengths lay in his ability to conceptualize and create beautiful objects from wood and he became an accomplished woodworker.  Many of his clients in the Brattleboro area are fortunate to have homes containing his masterpieces.  Kitchens were his specialty and his creations are nothing short of works of art, displaying the natural beauty of the wood while being wonderfully, sometimes ingeniously, functional.
He will be sorely missed by his brother, Jim and his wife, Margaret, of Mercer Island, Wash.; his sister, Barbara Audet and her husband, Peter, of Bow, N.H.; and his niece and nephew, Marissa and Colton Miller of Mercer Island, Wash.  He is also survived by many family members in Maine and across the country.
  He was predeceased by his mother and father.  
He will be greatly missed by his many friends and colleagues in Newfane, Vt., and the surrounding areas.  He left us much too soon.