Volunteers build retiree new home in a week
Marvin Miller arrived at his new home on Sam Road on Saturday morning with a jacket over his head to prevent him from seeing it.
A week ago, he left the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency cottage that he's called home since after Aug. 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina destroyed the Northrop Grumman retiree's house.
On Saturday, after son Billy Miller of Lucedale got his father out of the pickup truck and removed the jacket, Marvin Miller looked up and said, "I love it. I'm no speechmaker. I don't know what to say."
Miller, 66, was flanked by his son and grandchildren, Angela, Ashley and Joseph, as he saw his new house. Daughter-in-law Margie Miller was taking photographs as Lutheran Episcopal Services volunteers cheered and took their own photographs and videos.
The house was the third "Speed Build" for the volunteers in Jackson County since the storm. Construction began March 7, and by Friday, a building inspector was looking over the finished product, said Carla Poole, a Lutheran Episcopal Services case manager.
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