Death
Max Miller died in Shawnee, Oklahoma in 1985, four days before his 74th birthday, after a long fight with congestive heart failure, leaving a large personal archive of live and studio recordings, much of it unreleased. He was survived by his wife, the artist Juanita S. (Nita) Miller, the daughter of actor Glenn Strange. She completed cataloging Max's work before her death in 1995.
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