Longtime Eunice optometrist dies

A retired Eunice optometrist, Dr. Jack Miller Sr. died Tuesday afternoon.
Miller opened the family optometry business of Miller & Miller in January of 1960. Miller’s oldest son Jack “Jay” Miller Jr. joined him in 1983. “Dr. Jack” retired in October of 2003.
Born on Aug. 7, 1931, to Ben D. Miller and Eva Guillory Miller, Jack was the oldest boy of six siblings.
Miller attended St. Edmund Elementary and as a sophomore transferred to Eunice High School. When interviewed in Jan. of 2009, Miller said, “I wanted to play sports. St. Edmund did not offer athletics during that time.”
Miller graduated in 1949 from Eunice High and was captain of the football team, played basketball and competed in track as a pole vaulter.
After graduation, Miller worked for four years as a bookkeeper for Gil Truck Lines in Eunice, and then served two years in the Army at Ft. Bliss in El Paso, Texas.
Miller married Lois Fontenot in November of 1952. Lois died in January 2001.
After Miller served in the military he attended LSU in Baton Rouge for three years taking pre-optometry courses before attending Southern College of Optometry in Memphis for three years. He graduated in June 1958 as valedictorian.
Miller’s youngest son Dr. Randy Miller is an internist in Eunice and another son Robert is a radiologist in Baton Rouge. A daughter Joan Miller Richard is a special education teacher at Glendale Elementary in Eunice.
Miller had 12 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Miller was involved in an accident in December near Kinder and was transported to a Baton Rouge hospital where he remained for several weeks before returning home.