Ronald Andrew Millian
		Friday, May 26, 2006
The Rev. Ronald Andrew Millian, 74, a retired career Air Force chaplain and colonel, died of cardiac arrest April 26 at his home in Oceanside, Calif.
Chaplain Millian was a Washington native and a graduate of  Roosevelt High School. He graduated from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and received a   master of divinity degree from Boston University in 1956 and a doctor of   ministry degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1982. He was ordained in the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church by Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam.
After graduating in 1956, he joined the Air Force and served at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida and Sembach Air Base in Germany.
Upon returning to civilian life in 1959, he founded St. Mark's United Methodist Church, later renamed Francis Asbury United Methodist Church, in Rockville. At the time, he also served as an Army Reserve chaplain with a racially integrated Reserve unit made up of doctors, lawyers and other professionals. This unit met one weekend a month at the armory near his church. On Sunday the unit marched in uniform to church, which was Chaplain Millian's way of integrating St. Mark's.
He returned to active duty in the Air Force in 1963, serving in numerous posts over his nearly 30-year career. His assignments included chaplain to the Presidential Wing at Andrews Air Force Bace, senior chaplain to NATO North in Oslo, Norway, and chief of the Chaplain Branch of the Air Force Inspector General's Office at Norton Air Force Base in California.
His last assignment was as command chaplain of the Air Reserve Personnel Center in Denver. He retired in 1992 and moved to California. His military decorations included the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal with Six Oak Leaf Clusters, the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Humanitarian Service Medal.
Survivors include his wife of nearly 50 years, Constance Millian, of Oceanside; two sons, John C. Millian of McLean and Mark A. Millian of Carlsbad, Calif.; a brother, Kenneth Y. Millian of Washington; and five grandchildren.