DALLAS-The Dallas Morning News reports that Vance C. Miller, chairman and CEO of Henry S. Miller Co., died of a heart attack on Feb. 23. He was 79.
Miller had the leadership reins of the company launched by his grandfather, Henry S. Miller, in 1914. Vance Miller, with father Henry S. Miller Jr., expanded the business from a one-man real estate companies to one of the largest commercial and residential real estate companies in the nation.
Miller was born in Dallas in 1933 and attended Southern Methodist University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1954. While in college, he met his wife. He and Geraldine Erwin married in 1956. They had four children. Miller served in the Air Force during the Korean War before joining the family business in 1959. By 1970, he was president of the company.
Henry S. Miller Jr. sold the company in 1983 to Grubb & Ellis, where he and his son served on the board. They relaunched Henry S. Miller Co. in 1994.
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