MEMORIAL SERVICE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 83, 22 September 1947, Page 5

MEMORIAL SERVICE

LATE STANLEY MILLER SCOUTS AND ST. JOHN AMBULANCE “There is no greater testimony a man can leave behind him in a community than a host of friends who will join in saying that the world is a better place for his having lived.” In this way Rev. J. Climo prefaced his address at the combined memorial service last Sunday morning to the late Stanley Frederic Miller whose death occurred in London a week ago.

The service was attended by over a hundred Scouts and Cubs with whom the late Mr Miller had been intimately connected over a long period, a representative number of members of the local branch of the St. John Ambulance Association and members of the R.S.A. The uniformed section of the congregation paraded at Cadman’s corner and marched to the Church under the control of D.S.M .Don Scott. The service embodied suitable hymns and prayers, the Church being filled to capacity with friends of the Miller family besides those in uniform.

Rev. Climo stated that though it was not his privilege to have known Mr Miller yet he understood from the widespread tributes which had been made to him, that he was a man who gave service at all times, that he left a good name and many friends was exemplified by the gathering there in the church. To the Scouts he would say that their late Scoutmaster had left an example which should act as an inspiration to carry forward and honour the traditions of the movement which he had served so well. The members of St. John Ambulance would appreciate him as a worker and one who had left a fine example of enthusiasm and application. To his comrades in the Armed Forces, his passing would be as another casualty in the great fight, but his name would not merely be engraved on a memorial but upon the hearts of those who knew him as a friend.