A Tribute To My Dad
Marvin G. Miller, son of Gale Miller, January 2010
Truly a man of the mountains
Born in the year of ten
He saw the horse and buggy go
And the Model A come in.
From Model A to touring car
The changes came all too soon
He saw a man shot into space
And land upon the moon.
From horse and buggy travel
To flights into outer space
The changes of a hundred years
Have passed before his face.
An avid thirst for knowledge
Within his heart did burn,
And throughout his five score years
He never ceased to learn ---
And to gladly share that knowledge
Was his main delight
Ready to share what he had learned
Whether morning, noon, or night.
And he broadened that knowledge with travel
He journeyed the U.S. and
Many the time he took a flight
To visit a foreign land.
Truly a man of the mountains
With talents that few understood
Whether lining a bee or grafting a tree
Or carving a chain out of wood.
There, on a country hillside farm
He grew to be a man
Working by his father’s side
He learned to till the land.
He knew how to work at the blacksmith forge
And “strike while the iron was hot”
To build a house, and split the stone
And love what God had wrought.
He loved to tell the “Good News”
To the neighbors that were lost
And he raised his little family
In the shadow of the cross.
Yes, truly a man of the mountain
Loved by everyone
And throughout my lifetime
I was proud to be his son!
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