Mineral Wells Index, 12 April 1925
PASSING AWAY OF DR. R. B. MILLING.
Dr. R. G. Milling, aged 57 years., passed away at 4:15 Sunday afternoon in the Baylor Memorial Hospital, Dallas where he recently underwent an operation. His body has been returned to Mineral Wells and is in the care of Undertaker Beetham & Son. He will be laid to rest in Elmwood cemetery Tuesday afternoon.
The funeral service will be held at the First Baptist Church of which he was a member, at four p. m. Tuesday, Rev. Harlan J. Matthews, pastor conducting the services at the church and at the grave.
Dr. Milling was born in Georgia, but for 38 years prior to his death was a resident of Texas, having made his home, up until four years ago, in and around Cisco. After coming here he was connected with his son, Dr. H. H. Milling.
He is survived by his wife and seven children, two sons, Dr. H. H. Milling and R. G. Milling, both of Mineral Wells, Mrs. A. N. Brown of Cisco, and Mrs. A. Heffner of Spurr, and Misses Rebbie, Earp and Orlena Milling of Mineral Wells.
Source: Frost Bowman, “Various Obituaries Taken from the Records of the Beetham and Son Funeral Home, Beetham-Powell Funeral Home, Buzbee Funeral Home, Now White’s Funeral Home in Mineral Wells, Texas, beginning 1912 to 1961” (Mineral Wells, Texas: unpublished manuscript, 1988), pp. 86-87; Boyce Ditto Public Library, Mineral Wells.