Mr. Horace Wayne Miller, 84, of Duck Hill, passed away Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital – North Mississippi in Oxford. He was born on Dec. 2, 1940, in Winona to Edward Clark and Wilma Ligon Miller. Wayne enjoyed a long, successful career with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety retiring as a Captain with the Mississippi Highway Patrol’s Bureau of Investigation. He was a faithful and devoted member of Duck Hill Baptist Church.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, February 10, 2025, at Duck Hill Baptist Church with the Rev. Phillip Palmertree officiating. Interment with honors rendered by the Mississippi Highway Patrol Honor Guard followed in the Eskridge Cemetery. The family received friends from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon and one hour prior to the service Monday all at Duck Hill Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Rose Ann Heath Miller; three sons, Mark Miller(Dot) of Greenwood, Jim Miller(Lana) of Carroll County and Mike Miller(Alicia) of Coldwater; two sisters, Marjorie Gillmore of Estero, Fla. and Sandra Rosamond of Elliott; four grandchildren, Drew Miller of Oxford, Matt Miller(Megan) of St. Louis, Mo., Michael Miller of Oxford and Brendi Miller of Aberdeen; and three great-grandchildren, Anna Rose Miller, Hallie Hahn and Nadia Miller.
Drew Miller, Jim Miller, Mark Miller, Matt Miller, Michael Miller and Mike Miller honored Wayne by serving as pallbearers and carried him to rest in the Eskridge Cemetery. Kevin Horan, John McCormick, Ricardo “Butler” White and members of Wayne’s Sunday School class served as honorary pallbearers.
Memorials may be directed to Duck Hill Baptist Church or the Eskridge Cemetery Fund.
Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.mckibbenandguinn.com
Arrangements have been entrusted to McKibben and Guinn Funeral Service in Grenada, (662-307-2694).
