Lt. James Carl Miller
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 26 October 1943,
page 1
The Purple Heart, awarded posthumously to her late son, Lieut.
James C Miller, has been received from the War Department by Mrs. Helen Miller,
627 Park avenue, Newport.
Lieut. Miller was killed recently in Sicily.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 30 November 1943, page 1
HONORED-The late Lieut. James C Miller, son of Mrs. Knox Miller, 627 Park Avenue, Newport, was commissioned a colonel on the staff of Gov. Keen Johnson Tuesday. Lieut. Miller, a graduate of Newport Catholic High School and Xavier University, Cincinnati, was killed in action last July 25 in Sicily. The commission says:
"That Second Lieutenant James C Miller, having been duly appointed is herby commissioned as an aid de camp on the staff of the governor with the rank and grade of colonel. This posthumous commission is issued in recognition of valor and heroism in the discharge of duty which resulted in his being killed in action."
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 14 September 1948, page 4
RITES-Requiem High Mass for 2nd Lt. James C Miller, 627 Park avenue, Newport, will be sung at St Stephen Church at 9 am Thursday following prayers at the Betz funeral home, Newport, at 8:30 am. Burial will be in St Joseph Cemetery, Cold Spring. Lt. Miller, 22, a forward observer in Battery A, 171st Field Artillery, 45th Division, was killed in action in the North African area July 25, 1943.
.A native of Newport, he attended St Stephen Parochial School and Newport Catholic High School. Lt. Miller received a four year scholarship to Xavier University and was graduated from there. Prior to entering the service he was a member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps. He leaves his mother, Mrs. Helen Miller and five sisters, Mrs. Helen Voet and Mrs. Eva Venable of Ft Thomas and Mrs. Irma Collopy, Mrs. Gertrude Ritter and Mrs. Anne Stampe of Newport, and three brothers, W Leroy Miller, Dayton O; John I Miller, Bellevue and Wilmer E Miller, Alexandria.