Herbert F. Miller, 70, died Saturday, March 31, 2001, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison. Miller was born July 11, 1930, in Chicago, the son of Herbert W. and Pearl (Lehman) Miller. He was married on July 29, 1950, to Joyce Knull in Walworth.
Miller grew up in Clinton, Elkhorn and Walworth. He served in the U.S. Army in the Korean War from 1952 to 1954. He became owner and editor of The Randolph Advance in 1959. Eight years later, in 1967, he sold the paper and purchased The Sharon Reporter and The Walworth Times, followed by the purchase of The Clinton Topper. He was instrumental in the organization of Central Printing Corporation in Delavan.
In 1978, he sold the papers and returned to Randolph, where he and his wife owned the J&H Tap until 1986. After a short retirement, Miller went to work for Staehling Brothers Printing in Waupun, until he retired again in 1996.
Miller was a member of the Fox Lake American Legion Post, the Beaver Dam 40 & 8, the Ingalls-Koeppen American Legion Post, the Williams Bay Lions Club, the Randolph and Walworth fire departments and was a charter member of Faith Lutheran Church in Walworth.
