MILLER, Lige

Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, Arizona August 3, 1967 Friendly, cheerful Lige Miller, Wickenburg business man who died in community Hospital July 27 at age 66, lived a colorful life. As a young man he traveled with his mother and younger brothers and sisters in a covered wagon from southern Missouri to Wyoming where both he and his mother homesteaded near Recluse in that State. He lived on his homestead until 1929 when he entered the heavy equipment contracting business. He served as a city commissioner of Buffalo, Wyoming; lived briefly in Alaska and spent three years on the Chimayo Indian Reservation in New Mexico where he learned, from the Indians, the art and skill of weaving. He became a dept at that highly technical and painstaking work. Moving to Tombstone, he and Mrs. Miller established their Miller’s Sportswear, devoted to weaving garments, principally Chimayo vests, jackets and panchos. In 1964 the Millers moved to Wickenburg, establishing their shop in the Center Street establishment known as Pancho’s. Later, after two years of residence in Salome they returned to Wickenburg, opening Miller’s Hand Woven Sportswear in the Stage Stop Building on the California Highway. Last fall they moved back to Pancho’s. Mr. Miller was born April 29, 1901 in Nevada, Mo. He had been in ill health since last December and was admitted to Community Hospital.