Obituary of Frederick Miller

Frederick Robeson Miller, 84, a retired banker died on December 18th at Chestnut Hill Hospital. Mr. Miller was born on October 11th, 1927 in Oakland, California, the son of Charles Lennon Miller and the former Juliet Robeson Chamberlain. He is survived by his wife, the former Nancy McDaniel, who was born in Chestnut Hill, and by three children, Susan Chase Clark, Stephen Robeson Miller and Elizabeth Rockwell Miller, as well as two grandsons, Kyle Sands Clark and Tyler Robeson Clark.

Mr. Miller served as a paratrooper in the U.S. Army, 11th Airborne Division, during the occupation of Japan in 1946-47, and in the Army Reserve until 1959. He graduated from Yale University, class of 1952, from the Stonier School of Banking, Rutgers University in 1962 and from the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management, Dartmouth College, in 1967. At Yale, he was a member of Pierson College and St. Anthony Hall.

Following his graduation from Yale, Mr. Miller began his banking career in New York City at J.P. Morgan & Co. He joined the Philadelphia National Bank in 1954, and served there for fifteen years becoming a vice president. In 1969, Mr. Miller moved to Connecticut to be president of the Waterbury National Bank and, subsequently, president and chief executive officer of the Connecticut National Bank. He was instrumental in the merger of the Connecticut National and the Hartford National Banks in 1982, and he served as vice chairman of the board of the combined bank, the Connecticut National Bank, until his retirement in 1987.

Mr. Miller was active in a number of business, civic, hospital and charitable organizations in Connecticut, serving on the board of directors of several including Goodwill and Bridgeport Hospital. He particularly valued his association of more than a decade with the United Way of Fairfield County, where he served as a director, campaign chairman and president.

Following his retirement, the Millers moved to Tubac, Arizona. In May of 2007 they returned to the Philadelphia area and moved into their new home at the Hill at Whitemarsh, Lafayette Hill.

Mr. Miller was interested in athletics, enjoyed playing gold and bridge and painted landscapes in oils in his retirement years.

Mr. Miller was a member of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, the Yale Club of New York City, the Sunnybrook Golf Club, the Society of California Pioneers and the Swedish Colonial Society. He was also a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Chestnut Hill.

Family services will be held in Woodbury, Connecticut. Memorial donations are requested to be made to the Salvation Army.

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