On July 5, at 10:36 p.m., after a valiant battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Lorry quietly slipped peacefully into eternity with his beloved wife, Jeannie, holding his hand.

Lorry Clark Miller was born in Salt Lake City on September 10, 1938, to William James Miller and Leah Rebecca Clark Miller. The family moved to Evanston, Wyoming, when he was three, and it was there, in a small town of three thousand with one main street and a community where everyone knew everyone else, that he grew up hunting and fishing alongside his father. He was given his first .22 at twelve, and he spent his boyhood weekends and summers in the Wind River Range, on the Grey's River or the Yellowstone, or at Flaming Gorge, learning the country by walking it.

He graduated from Evanston High School in 1956 and, at seventeen, went with his friends to enlist. They all went down together and scattered across the branches; Lorry chose the Air Force. College was beyond his family's means, but he wanted an education, and his parents signed the papers that let him go. After basic training at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi, he was sent to England for three years.

On one of his first weekend leaves, he went to London, and there he met Jeannie Mitchell. A small-town Wyoming boy and an elegant English girl — she was, by his own account, something out of the pictures. They courted for two years and were married in London on April 4, 1959. That December he was honorably discharged in New York City, and Jeannie joined him weeks later. They began their life together in Evanston with Lorry's family, where their daughter Tanya was born.

Later, they moved to Salt Lake City, then to Las Vegas, where their son Stephen was born. It was there that Lorry taught Jeannie to drive.

Eventually, the call to be closer to family came, and they moved back to Salt Lake City, where they settled in the Cottonwood Heights area. There they welcomed their daughter, Elizabeth, to the family.

Lorry was always a hard worker and had several interesting and challenging jobs. But in 1969 he found and began the career he loved, joining the FAA as a radar air traffic controller. In addition to being a job he enjoyed, it was here he met lifelong friends and achieved several awards for excellence.

After 25 years at the FAA, Lorry took early retirement and found a second calling on the golf course. He was the first starter at River Bend when it opened, and after he and Jeannie moved to Sun City West, Arizona, in 1997, he took up the same post at Desert Trails. In 2005 they returned to Utah, settling at Sky Mountain Estates in Hurricane, where he became the first starter at Sand Hollow. He was an avid golfer, played in countless tournaments, and was rightly proud of his hole-in-one.

He was a lifelong outdoorsman who wanted his children to love what he loved, so most weekends and summers were spent camping, fishing, and eating what they caught. He traveled widely, taking his family through most of the United States and twice to England and South Africa, on safari in Kruger National Park and into the unprotected wild of the Okavango. It was Africa that changed him: after seeing that abundance of life, he traded his guns for cameras and said ever after that he would rather shoot with a camera.

He never lost his curiosity. He loved a drive with no destination, turning down any dirt road just to learn where it went — something he did just days before he died, asking to be taken down a road he had never traveled.

Lorry was a jokester, a devoted husband, and a man of deep and quiet faith. Following a profound spiritual experience that reshaped his life, he gave himself wholly to Christ and spent the rest of his years trying to pass that on in small, unannounced ways. It was common for him to leave a note of encouragement with the tip whenever he sensed someone was having a hard day. He was constitutionally unable to pass by a person in need. He stopped for every stranded car. If the driver was a woman alone, he would not leave her. He was a man who believed in chivalry and responsibility. So, he would either fix the car, give her a ride, or follow her into town to see her safely there. He taught his children honesty, kindness, and charity, and he taught them by doing it.

Lorry was a patriot and loved America and everything she stands for. It was important to him that his descendants take pride in our country and defend the principles she was built on. In the last few years of his life, Lorry wrote and published a book highlighting his passion for defending freedom.

He believed wholeheartedly in the tenets of God, country and family.

Shortly before he passed, despite being wheelchair-bound, he went fishing with his granddaughter and played catch with his son. Even at the end, he was making memories.

If Lorry could tell you himself, he would say he had a very good and happy life. He loved his career, he loved the beautiful golf courses he worked at, and he dearly loved his wife and his family.

He was preceded in death by his parents, William and Leah Miller; his sister, Leah Bomell Wakefield; and several beloved dogs and a horse.

He is survived by Jeannie, his wife of sixty-seven years, and by his children Tanya, Stephen

(Nicole), and Elizabeth (Elvis) as well as 13 grandchildren.

Funeral Services will be held at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Hurricane 11th Ward Chapel on Saturday, July 25, 2026 at 11 am. 452 North 2600 West, Hurricane Utah. A viewing will be held briefly before the funeral from 9:30-10:30 am.

A second viewing will be held at the Memorial Lakeview Chapel on Saturday, August 1, 2026 at 11:00 a.m, with a graveside service & military honors following at 11:30 a.m. 1640 Lakeview Drive, Bountiful, Utah 84010.

While our hearts are heavy with the loss of our beloved husband and father, we know somewhere on the great rivers of Heaven, Lorry is steady-casting his fly rod with his dogs at his heels and a smile on his face. He never let go of Jeannie’s hand.

Arrangements were made under the direction of Vista Funeral Home. 157 East Riverside Drive, Suite 3A, St. George, Utah. 435-680-7035. Family and friends are invited to share memories on Lorry's digital memorial page at www.VistaFH.com