Deceased April 24, 2007
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In Memory
Stephen C. Miller passed away April 24, 2007. He and his wife, Dodo, lived in Harbor Springs, MI.
Steve was born in California in 1929 and moved with his family to Michigan. In l947 he graduated from Cranbrook School, where he was captain of the tennis team, active in cross-country, sports reporting and organizing social events. He was a member of the illustrious Amherst Class of ’51 and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
He enlisted in 1952 and served with the Army Security Agency in Germany until discharged in Munich in 1955. In 1954 he married Dorothy Cudder. They had three children, Mary Bard, Ann and Steven.
Steve had a long career in mortgage banking and commercial real estate, first in Michigan with C. M. Harmon Company until 1971, and then he moved to Washington, D.C., and became president of Sonnenblick-Goldman for several years. He moved to Beverly Hills, CA, then to Long Beach with a national banking operation and in the l980s started his own firm in West Los Angeles, which was very successful. He traveled extensively to Europe and Hong Kong.
In 1955 he renewed a friendship from his Cranbrook days with Dorothy Ellen “Dodo” Booth. They were married in Harbor Springs in 1996 with Steve’s three and Dodo’s four children and 10 grandchildren in attendance. Steve has been an active church leader for years, serving on church vestries in Michigan and California as well as trusteeships with the Church Divinity School of the Pacific and the Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Those who knew Steve will remember many personal traits, including that wonderful sense of humor and his Cheshire cat’s grin, which usually presaged one of his famous comments.
John Keydel ’51