{"id":836,"date":"2015-12-15T15:18:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/?p=836"},"modified":"2021-01-16T09:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T09:59:07","slug":"iconic-businessman-from-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Businessman from Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Miller Jr., a man\u00a0who has owned and operated Miller Funeral Homes for nearly a century, died Monday at St. Francis Medical Center. \u00a0Miller has a long history in the Monroe, La area, along with the Funeral home,\u00a0Reliable Life Insurance Co. was established by his mother in 1940 to complement the family&#8217;s funeral home business.<\/p>\n<p>He continued his family&#8217;s legacy for many centuries.\u00a0The insurance company was recognized multiple times by Black Enterprise magazine as one of the top business owned by African-American businessmen.<\/p>\n<p>Miller was a person that everyone loved and enjoyed talking with. He was a very smart businessman who graduated from law school at Howard University over 55 years ago. He was a man that believed in the younger generation. \u00a0He sponsored many programs in the community to help teach young people the essence of living in a non perfect world.<\/p>\n<p>AMPS Magazine would like to say farewell to a great man and a person who we respected very much. \u00a0<strong>RIP MR. MILLER!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ose-wrapper ose-uid-8b1292b7010f2d837eb9cf13a8ac67f1 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"document_com\"><iframe allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.millersfuneralhomes.com\" > <\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Joseph Miller Jr., a man\u00a0who has owned and operated Miller Funeral Homes for nearly a century, died Monday at St. Francis Medical Center. \u00a0Miller has a long history in the Monroe, La area, along with the Funeral home,\u00a0Reliable Life Insurance Co. was established by his mother in 1940 to complement the family&#8217;s funeral home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-community"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Joe-miller.png?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}