Torch, Winter 1990

--------------------------------------------~ Tending to Family Business An interview with C.E. Gene Miller (pictured below with his wife, Betty), chairman of Miller Oil Corporation. Miller Oil is a family-owned and -operated business in Traverse City, Michigan. ~- Gene, tell us about your involvement with Miller Oil. A. We acquired the business from our father. For several years, my brother John and I were in partnership and my brother Jack was associated with us in a business named Miller Brothers, a co– partnership. Now we have separate companies, and my children are in– volved with me in Miller Oil. ~- What do your children do in Miller Oil? A. Kelly, our son, is president of the company, and son-in-law Doug serves as production manager. Our son David has a geology degree, but was working Courtesy ofCharles I. Lewis Photography in administration. He present!y is studying finance at Western Michigan. Son Dan managed a field operation and now has started a gas and oil drilling company called West Shores here in Traverse City. So they all have been or will be involved in some way.