Clyde Wesley Miller was born October 11, 1957 in El Reno, Oklahoma. He was the second son of Violet VanGundy Miller and Clyde Miller. He departed this life on April 1, 2009 in Caddo, Oklahoma. He attended school at Mountain View Elementary, Darlington Elementary, El Reno High School and Redlands Community College. He married Sara Lou Helt on January 31, 1976 and to this union two daughters, Christina and Sara Jane, were born.
Wesley's father taught him early the value of honesty and hard work which serviced him well throughout his entire life. Everyone who worked with him knew that he was a hardworking, dependable man. Wesley's mother taught him early the value of prayer and did much to guide him into the man he would later become.
Wesley and Sara made their home in the Darlinton area where he worked at Evergreen Mills, Ft. Reno, in the oilfield, and for the Wildlife Department at the Darlington Game Farm. Due to the dedicated prayer and fasting of his mother and brother, George, he found the Lord on April 6, 1984 at which time his whole life changed. He accepted the call into the ministry and began pasturing at the Olivet Church of the Nazarene. He attended Southern Nazarene University and was ordained into the Church of the Nazarene in 1991. He was a chaplain at the Federal Penitentiary at El Reno and life was going great when he accepted a call to pastor at the Camp Creek Church of the Nazarene in 1994. He loved the Camp Creek area and the people of Dewey County and he and Sara decided to buy a house and land and retire in the Webb area, south of Camp Creek. In 1999, he accepted a call to the Blackwell Church of the Nazarene and stayed there until 2003 when he again returned to Camp Creek. At this time he began his evangelistic ministry along with pasturing the Camp Creek Church. He soon became a very well-known evangelist and traveled all over the United States holding revivals reaching countless people for the Lord.
Wesley was country through and through with some of his favorite times being spent in the woods hunting, fishing, or just enjoying God's earth. He loved to ride horses, he was an excellent artist and loved teaching all these things to his children and grandkids.
Rev. C. Wesley Miller was a man of prayer, having wisdom and common sense along with his knowledge and insight into the scriptures. He wrote two books and was working on a third at the time of his death. His wisdom and godliness led to being a valuable member of the District Church of the Nazarene, serving on the District Sunday School Board, the District Advisory Board and the District Credentials Board. One of his most valued awards was the Eagle award given to him by the district for church growth because it represented not only members, but people whom he had won to the Lord.
Wesley was preceded in death by his parents, Clyde and Violet Miller. He is survived by his wife, Sara, of the home; daughter, Christina and husband Bert Wagner of Botavia, New York; daughter, Sara Jane and husband Brian Hau of Hennessey, Oklahoma; grandchildren, Luvena Wagner, Michael, Colton, Collin, and Alexis Hau; one brother, George and wife Nany, missionaries in the Soloman Islands; niece, Gloria; nephews, Greg, Geoffrey, and Gary who were very close to Wesley, spending a great deal of time in their home while in high school and college; a number of other nieces and nephews, and literally thousands of church family and friends.
Pastor Wesley never knew a stranger and everyone he met considered him a close friend and confidant. His passing will leave a void in the world that cannot be expressed. Wesley was truly a man of God.