Jake Edward Miller

Funeral services for Jake Edward Miller, 37, of Edgewood, TX, are scheduled for 10 a.m. on Wednesday, July 16, at Heitt’s LyBrand Funeral Home in Wills Point.

Jake passed away on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Dallas.

Jake Edward Miller was born on October 8, 1987, in Santa Maria, CA, to parents Robert “Bob” Miller and Karen Coderre. He was raised in Edgewood and graduated from Edgewood High School with the class of 2005. After high school, Jake moved to Oak Cliff in Dallas, where he lived out his dream of becoming the best, most handsome bartender and mixologist in the business. An avid traveler, he went to India, Thailand, and Mexico and spent a year living in Australia. Throughout his life, Jake lived in several states in addition to Texas, including California, Missouri, Florida, and Colorado and held many professions at which he excelled, including shoe salesman, line cook, and warehouse distributor.

Known for his humor, good looks, charisma, and style, Jake enjoyed skateboarding, attending concerts and listening to music, playing guitar, gardening and plants, working on cars and motorcycles, fishing, cooking, watching movies, being with family and friends, and meeting new people. An outgoing and tender soul, Jake lived life to the fullest, loved deeply, and cultivated a circle of die-hard friends who stayed by his side no matter the circumstances.

He was preceded in death by his grandparents.

Jake is survived by his father and stepmother Bob and Vicky Miller, brother Nick Miller, and sister Kristi Goode of Edgewood; mother Karen Coderre of Naples, FL; sister Laura Miller and her husband Adam Kullberg of Denver, CO; his aunts Jennifer Miller and Marilyn Miller of Palmer Lake, CO, and many other family members and friends, all of whom he loved dearly.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to gofundme.com/memorial-service-for-jake-miller.

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