Vernon Fagan Miller, 82, died Friday, May 8, 1998 in a Vernon nursing home following a lengthy illness. Fagan was born July 11, 1915 in Omaha, Texas, a son of the late Arthur and Lona Motley Miller. He graduated from Odell High School in 1934 and lived most of his life in Wilbarger County. He married Ruby White on June 3, 1941 in Altus, Oklahoma. A former rodeo and circus trick rider with the Cole Brothers and Clyde Beaty Circus, he traveled all over the US. He also worked at a dude ranch in Craterville, Oklahoma, was a bull rider on the rodeo circuit and was a manager of the Santa Rosa Rodeo Grounds for Mr. E.Paul Waggoner for 28 years. He attended every performance of the Santa Rosa Rodeo except the first one. Fagan started a horse breeding program and training operation with 2 mares he bought from the Waggoners. He had a significant role in showing the famed quarter horse Poco Bueno and won many awards in the show ring over the years. He was a member of Central Christian Church, the Rodeo Cowboys Association, Greenbelt Quarter Horse Association and the American Quarter Horse Association. He was listed in the Book of Cowboy Legends and the Western Horseman Book of Legends. He received recognition for 20 years of breeding and training work from the American Quarter Horse Association and for meritorious service to the 4-H and the Future Farmers of America. One of his top stallions was Poco Bevo. Survivors include his wife, Ruby of the hoome, two sons, Don of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Paul of Vernon; one brother, Poogie of Vernon; one sister, Sybil Newton of San Diego, California; three grandsons and several nieces and nephews. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Sullivan Funeral Home Chapel with Joe Dale Wilson officiating. Interment will be in Wilbarger Memorial Park.Pallbearers will be Kent Smead, Jerry Rogers, Rodney Prince, Bennie Beutler, Troy Don Collier, Dean Hofmann, Chris Yoakum and Greg Tyra.