Remebering ‘Jack the Barber,’ a cut above and a cut-up to boot

A popular Tracy man who once boasted about polishing the bald head of the late Con Rettmer with Lemon Pledge died Oct. 14, leaving behind a small-town legacy.

Jack Miller, a barber for 50 years — about 47 of those in Tracy — was 90 years old.

“He was a good man, he was very generous,” said Wayne Anderson, a close friend and card-playing cohort of Miller for more than 40 years. “He’d go to somebody’s home and give them haircuts if they called, and the nursing home.”