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Funeral services
for Mrs. Florence J. Miller, 78, of Nampa who died Monday, Feb. 29, 1988, at home,
will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, March 4, at the Nampa
Grace Episcopal Church,
403 10th Ave. S.
Fr. James
Swearingen, rector of the church, will officiate.
Private family
interment will follow in the
Hillcrest
Memorial
Gardens.
Services are under
the direction of the Alsip Funeral Chapel,
Nampa.
Mrs. Miller was
born on Feb. 2, 1910, at
Cheyenne, Wyo. to Albert and Katherine Tidball
Johnston. In 1924
she moved with her family to
Thermopolis, Wyo., where she was reared and educated,
graduating from high school in 1928.
She attended
Penn Hall
Girls School
in Chambersburg,
Pa., and later attended the
University
of Nebraska,
graduating in 1932 with a degree in teaching.
She married Joseph
Warren Miller Jr. on Dec. 28, 1936, in Lincoln, Neb.
She taught in
Nebraska
for a while and then they moved to
Denver.
They later moved to Illinois. Mr.
Miller died in 1955. She
then moved to Santa Cruz, Calif.
In 1970 she came to Nampa, where she had since resided.
She was a member
of the Nampa Grace Episcopal Church, where she was involved
in the Altar Guild and the Episcopal Church Women.
She was also a
member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood and an associate member of
the Sisterhood of Santa Barbara, Calif.
Florence is
survived by two daughters, Jane (Mrs. Doug) Bishop, Nampa,
and Katharine (Mrs. Jim) Roeder, New Ringgold, Pa.; a
sister, Elizabeth (Mrs. Wedge) Thompson, Santa Rosa, Calif.;
two grandchildren, Jerry Wright Jr., U.S. Navy at Oak
Harbor, Wash., and Laura Lynnette Whieldon, Pa.; A niece,
Kathy Herford, Carmel Valley, Calif.; a nephew, Dr. Robert
Thompson, Santa Rosa. Besides
her husband she was preceded in death by her parents and a
sister.
The
family suggests memorial contributions to the P.E.O. Chapter
House, 114 E. Logan St., Caldwell
83605; the Grace
Episcopal Church; or flowers may be sent.
Friends may call
at the Alsip Funeral Chapel today until 9 p.m. and Thursday
from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
She was preceded in death by a son, a daughter, a
grandchild, five brothers and four sisters. Friends may call
at the Flahiff Chapel, Caldwell, until 8 p.m. today and
Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friends may call at the
Flahiff Chapel, Caldwell, until 8 p.m. today and Friday from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. |
