Roger Milliken was at ease whether he was walking from his Converse Heights home to The Skillet for breakfast to dine next to an average Joe or whether he was walking through the Rose Garden on his way to dinner with the country’s president.
He was a giant known worldwide, but he was Spartanburg’s giant and he never stopped touting the area and its people and he never stopped striving to make the area an even better place to live up until the day he died, last Thursday, December 30, at age 95.
While best known for his successful textile business, Milliken was also influential in education, conservation, politics, and civil rights.
For the rest of the story, see this week’s Inman Times, Spartanburg County News, Chesnee Tribune, Middle Tyger, Jan 5, 2011 Issue.
