Claude Henry Miller, M.D. Jr

Claude Henry Miller was born in Omaha, Nebraska to Margaret Clinton and Claude Henry Miller, Sr. He graduated from Holy Name Elementary School, Creighton Prep, Creighton University and Creighton Medical School. By his accounts, Claude was an adventurous child, the eldest of four surviving Miller children, Margaret Mary, Rita and Bernard. In adulthood, he would entertained his children and grandchildren with tales of his childhood in Omaha - raising rabbits, learning sign language, making wine and beer, wrestling, and biking to Iowa. In 1945, he left Omaha for an internship as a naval officer in Quantico Virginia. Shortly after arriving in Quantico, Claude was in an ambulance accident that caused him to become a patient at Bethesda Naval Hospital. He used this misadventure to secure a residency a Bethesda Naval Hospital, because "It was the Best." Following his training in Bethesda, he served as a naval flight surgeon in the Pacific, and was stationed in Midway, Guam, China and Hawaii. While in Hawaii he met and fell in love with Catherine Mary Newport. They were married in May 1948.

For a honeymoon, the couple traveled across the country in a decommissioned truck visiting friends and family. They finally settled in Louisville Kentucky, where their first child, a girl, Mary Lynn, was born in July 1949. In 1950, Claude was called back into active duty and moved the family to a farm near Great Lakes, Illinois. His second daughter, Margaret Ann, was born in April 1951. Following his discharge from the Navy in 1951, the family moved to Brooklyn, New York so Claude could study psychiatry and work at Brooklyn State Hospital. Two years later, the family moved to a house in White Plains, New York. Their third child, a son, Claude Henry, III was born in October 1954. In 1957, the family moved to New Rochelle, New York, where Claude lived for the next 50 years.

Claude loved both New York City and psychiatry. In 1959 he was certified by the American Institute of Psychoanalysis. He maintained an active psychoanalytical practice in addition to teaching and writing in Manhattan until 2005. Among his professional affiliations were his faculty positions at the New School for Social Research and Cooper Union, and his active membership in the New York Psychotherapy Group (NYPG). Claude enjoyed Starbuck's coffee, going to the theater and movies; traveling to new places; eating - lobster in Maine, corn in the Mid-West and any pie but pumpkin; visiting family and friends; life in NYC and working. He moved from the City in October 2006 to be closer to his son in California.

His wife of 39-years, Catherine Mary Newport, an infant grandson, and an infant brother, Edward Francis, preceded Claude in death. He is survived by three siblings and in-laws, Margaret Mary Miller, RSCJ, Rita and Richard Ecabert, and Bernard and Kathy Miller; three children and in-laws, Mary Lynn Miller, MD and Ron Sivonen, Margaret Miller and Gilbert Flaming, and Claude Henry and Cindy Sasse Miller, III; six grandchildren Benjamin Newport Sivonen, Claude Henry Miller IV, Caroline Page Miller, Catherine Mary Flaming, Jacob Andrew Flaming and Kristen Hawley Miller; and many friends and colleagues.