Milam Funeral & Cremation Services

Marcus A. "Mickey" Milam, III

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Licensed Funeral Director

Mr. Milam joined the Army after high school and served as a paratrooper. Upon discharge from military service, he attended Mortuary College at Miami-Dade Community College and received his funeral director and embalmer's license in 1968. He went to work for his father-in-law, Dick Williams, at Williams-Thomas Funeral Home in Gainesville and worked there until purchasing the Johnson-Hayes Funeral Home in 1990.
After purchasing the funeral home, Mr. Milam renamed the firm ~ Johnson-Hayes-Milam Funeral Home. In 2004, he renamed the firm Milam Funeral and Cremation Service to better reflect the services provided to our community. Our Gainesville location houses the Central Florida Crematorium and all cremations are performed "in-house".

Ashley Milam

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Licensed Funeral Director

In 1993, Ashley joined Milam Funeral Home as part-time office help while attending University of Florida. Over the next two years she became more involved in assisting with visitations and services. Then, after receiving her funeral apprentice license; she started working and learning directly under her father Mickey.
Ashley enrolled in St. Pete Junior College in 1995 for funeral service and in July 1996 she graduated from SPJC with an Associate of Science in Funeral Service. In 1997 she obtained her license from the State of Florida as a Funeral Director.
She moved to Newberry, Florida in June 2006 and became the FDIC at the Newberry Milam Funeral Home Chapel. In 2008, she moved to Plantation, Florida and worked with T.M. Ralph Funeral Home, another family owned and operated firm. And in 2009, Ashley came back to Alachua County and is presently the FDIC in Newberry, Florida where she resides.

Paul Anderson

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Licensed Funeral Director

Paul is one of the Funeral Directors working for Milam Funeral Home.

Donna Rayburn

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Family Services Counselor

Donna moved to Gainesville in 2002 after having worked for a funeral home in Canton, Ohio as office manager. She started with Milam Funeral Home as office manager, and when she was ordained as an interfaith minister in 2004, and was trained in grief counseling, she became the Aftercare/Grief Counselor for the funeral home, conducting grief support groups, and private counseling sessions with family members whose loved one had died.
As an ordained interfaith minister, she is available to officiate at funeral and memorial services and has served many families since 2004. She is also a Family Services Counselor, assisting with filing life insurance policies, and in making prearrangements. Donna has made Gainesville her home and outside of her career, she most enjoys being grandmother to her two grandsons.