“Don’t cry because it’s over…

Smile because it happened.”

~Dr. Seuss

Celebration of Life

Donald “Greg” Miller

October 23, 1947 ~ March 2, 2017

Prayer of St. Francis

LORD, make me an instrument of Your peace;

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,

Grant that I may not so much seek

To be consoled as to console;

To be understood, as to understand;

To be loved, as to love;

For it is in giving that we receive,

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Amen.

Graduate: St. Catherine Grammar School, Burlingame Serra High School, San Mateo (1965) Began college at University of Portland (played baseball) San Francisco State University, BA Degree in Social Science, Minored in Gerontology San Francisco College of Mortuary Science US Army: 4th Infantry Division Vietnam 1968 Purple Heart; Silver Star for Valor Business: Funeral Director, 37 years (last 30 years at Miller-Dutra Coastside Chapel) Organizations: San Mateo County Funeral Directors Association (Past President) Serra Club of San Mateo (10 years, Past President; Catholic men’s and women’s association for vocations) Knights of Columbus, Our Lady of the Pillar (28 years, Third Degree) Knights of Columbus Archbishop Alemany Assembly (Fourth Degree) Rotary Club, Half Moon Bay (22 years; Past President) Paul Harris Fellowship, Half Moon Bay Rotary Club Seton Coastside Hospital Community Advisory Board (4 years) Chamber of Commerce, Half Moon Bay and Coastside American Legion, Post 474, Half Moon Bay (28 years) I.D.E.S. Society, Half Moon Bay (28 years) Sons of Italy, Abraham Lincoln Lodge, Half Moon Bay (28 years) St. Catherine Hospital, Community Advisory Board, Moss Beach Volunteer Services: Free Saturday breakfasts at Ted Adcock Community Center, HMB Repairing homes of senior citizens (“Rebuilding Together”) Repairing children’s center and homes (Coastside Senior Center) Judge for speech contests, Half Moon Bay Lions Club Coached Little League, Half Moon Bay and San Mateo Started “Rainbows for All God’s Children” at St. Matthew’s Grammar School in San Mateo (children with divorced or deceased parents) Coached boys’ baseball and basketball, St. Matthew’s Catholic School Coached girls’ basketball & volleyball, St. Matthew’s Catholic School Organized HMB Rotary Club’s first international project to work in a free medical clinic in Mexico (several years); led to opening of “Rotacare” free medical center, Half Moon Bay

GREG’S NIECES AND NEPHEWS Christine Brandt Aaron Kucharski Janelle Uribe David & Joey Miller Joanna Cleveland John Jackson Marian Mann Landon Kucharski Michelle Miller Mike Jackson Stacy Watson Ceballos Mike Miller Granddaughter Sophia Mike & Nick Paino Paul Jackson MUSICIANS Alex Kelly, Cellist Art McGaw, Organist Michael Wright, Cantor

Reception to Follow Interment

I.D.E.S Society Hall 735 Main Street

Half Moon Bay, California

Mass of Christian Burial March 14, 2017 ~ 11:00 a.m.

Our Lady of the Pillar Catholic Church

Celebrant: Fr. Daniel Carter

Procession………………...……………………….…..“Gabriel’s Oboe” Entrance Hymn………………...…….…………...…...“We Are Called” Opening Prayer……………………...………………...Fr. Daniel Carter

First Reading………………………..….………………...Isaiah 25: 6-9

Everett Sheeley (brother-in-law) Responsorial Psalm………………………...…….…………….Psalm 23 Second Reading……………………......……….…..……Acts 10: 34-43

Jane Sheeley (sister) Gospel……………..………………….……………Matthew 25: 31-46 Homily Fr. Daniel Carter Prayers of the Faithful……...……………….…“Lord, hear our prayer”

Joanna Cleveland (niece) Offertory Hymn…….…………“Share Your Bread With The Hungry ” Presentation of Gifts…………………...………………Family & Friends Communion Hymns…………...……………….……..…“Put On Love” “Be God’s” Eulogies……………………….…...……Nicole Hawthorne (Daughter)

Austin Miller (son)

Final Commendation & Farewell……………..……….Fr. Daniel Carter Recessional Hymn………………...…………………“With One Voice”