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George McMillan

1962-1964

George McMillan was Council President from 1962 to 1964.  


From April 2, 1995 Chattanooga Free Press:


Chickamauga businessman George McKamie McMillan died Saturday, April 1, 1995, in a Chattanooga hospital. He was 77.


He was owner of the George McMillan Agency here that he founded in 1956, chairman of the board of Starkey Printing Co., and former president of American Label Co.


Mr. McMillan, a native of Clarksville, Ga., had lived in Chattanooga since childhood. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in Africa, the Mediterranean and Europe for three years with the 2nd Armored Division and retiring as a major.


He was a textile engineering graduate of Clemson University and had been superintendent of manufacturing for Crystal Springs Textiles in Chickamauga.


Mr. McMillan was a member of Chickamauga Presbyterian Church, where he was a deacon and an elder. He was vice chairman of the Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Foundation.


He was a former board member of the Chattanooga Association of Life Underwriters and the Chattanooga Estate Planning Council.


He was a former president of the Chattanooga Civitan Club, a member and former treasurer of the Civitan Child Welfare Auxiliary, and a member of the Mountain City Club.


Mr. McMillan is a former president of the Cherokee Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America and a former board member of the Audubon Society and of Goodwill Industries.


He was former president of the Chickamauga Chamber of Commerce and a charter member and former commander of the American Legion's Chickamauga Memorial Post 217.


He was the son of the late Garnett and Marie Alfriend McMillan and the brother of the late Garnett McMillan Jr.


Survivors include his wife, Peggy Callaway McMillan; two sons, Garnett and George McMillan Jr.; two sisters, Cornelia M. Killen, Palm Beach, Fla, and Rosemary M. Thompson, Hendersonville, N.C.; four grandsons; two nieces and two nephews.


The funeral will be Monday at 3 p.m. at Chickamauga Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Ed Langham officiating.

Burial will be in Clarksville.


The family will receive friends today from 6 to 8 p.m. and Monday from 11 a. m. to 1 p.m. at Wann Funeral Home.


Memorial contributions may be made to a favorite charity.

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