Jeffery Thomas Miller, 48, of Lakeland, Fla., died Jan. 30, 2008, at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in Flordia. Death was due to heart failure.

He was born Sept. 21, 1959, in Toledo, to Grant R. and Jean A. Czop Miller. His mother survives.On Dec. 7, 1989, he married Becky McElroy, who survives.

Other survivors are a son, Sean, and a daughter, Victoria, both at home.

He was self-employed. He served in the U.S. Navy and was a member of Am-Vets of Lakeland, and had earned his paralegal license.  

Services and burial were Feb. 22 at Lakeland Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens.