Laugh at the World

Clowning around

Just for what it is worth....

My father Dan "Shorty" Miller (1939) used to say he always wanted to be known as "The Class Clown" but that distinction went to his life long best buddy, Buryl "Red" Hunter (1939).

My Dad, however, as a hobby, spent the 50's and early 60's (as often as he could) clowning with the Polack Brother's Circus. He passed away in 1993 taking with him a library of circus knowledge.

Buryl had his own band while at Stadium (Red Hunter's Band) and played a lot of the Stadium and Lincoln school dances. He later played the drums with Louis Grenier's Band at the Top of the Ocean restaurant in Tacoma for thirteen years.

He is still living in Tacoma and gives organ concerts periodically for his neighbors at he and his wife's retirement home.

Charlene (Miller) Kosche (1962)

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