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Ogden Dayton Miller, Jr. died on October 16, 2026 in Chattanooga, Tennessee at the ripe old age of 93. He was born in New Haven, CT on 10 March 1933, the eldest of three sons born to Ogden D. Miller and Anne Carolyn Sheafe. He grew up in Hamden, CT near the campus of Yale University where his father was Director of Athletics.
The family moved in 1945 to Washington, CT where his father became Headmaster at The Gunnery School (now The Frederick Gunn School). In March 1942 the family survived a crisis when his mother, near death from strep infection, was miraculously saved by injections of a then-experimental drug penicillin becoming the first person ever to be saved by the new drug. He attended The Gunnery School, graduated from The Hotchkiss School in 1950, and followed up with a year abroad at Wellington College in Berkshire, England. He graduated Yale in 1955 with a degree in English and sang in the Yale Glee Club and the Alley Cats. In 1956 he enlisted in the U.S. Army, served in the 6th Army on the DMZ in Korea, and was honorably discharged with a rank of 1st Lieutenant. He was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency and served therein for his entire professional career, including tours in Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong, Cambodia, France, Turkey and Belgium.
He is survived by his first wife Gloria Ann Miller of Rajasthan, India and preceded in death by his second wife Jacqueline Capet of Paris France. He leaves two sons, Eric B. Miller of San Marino, CA married to Sarah Young Miller and Christopher D. Miller of Dallas, TX married to Patricia Brown Miller, a daughter, Anne Sheafe Leonard of Chattanooga, TN married to Craig Leonard , a stepdaughter Marion Huppe Bieuron of Paris, five granddaughters, four grandsons, three great-grandchildren and his two brothers Dwight D. Miller of Cambridge, MA and preceded in death by David P. Miller of Baltimore, MD.
Burial will be at a later time in the Family plot in Washington, CT.