Lois M. Miller (1921 - 2001)

MILLER, DANNER, HESTON, LANCASTER, SYLVARA, MARVIN, PENICK, ADAMS, SCHULTZ, CHEW

Posted By: Karen Brewer (email)
Date: 9/15/2011 at 23:18:49

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Lois M. Miller
Lois M. Miller was born on Sept. 13, 1921, in Woodburn to Harry R. and Elsie Ann Danner Heston and died April 7, 2001, of complications of heart surgery at Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines. She was 79.

She graduated from Norwood High School in 1940 and went to work as a waitress. She was lifetime resident of Lucas and Clarke Counties.

She married Everett Eugene Miller on Oct. 3, 1947, in Chariton and they became the parents of four children. Mr. and Mrs. Miller farmed south of Murray for 14 years before they moved to town.

Mrs. Miller worked for the Osceola Police Department as a dispatcher for 10 years and another 10 years for the Clarke County Homemaker Service.

She was a member of the Lucas Presbyterian Church and the Murray Busy Neighbor Club.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; brother, Ross Heston; sister, Norma Lancaster; two brothers-in-law, Frank Lancaster and Mike Sylvara; father-in-law, Clarence Miller and nephew, Bobby Sylvara.

Mrs. Miller is survived by a son, Wayne Miller and his wife, Sharon Miller, of Odessa, Texas; three daughters, Mary A. Marvin and Connie Penick and her husband, Jim Penick, of Osceola and Susan and Ron Adams of Oakland; ten grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; two sisters, Dorothy Sylvara of Kansas City, Mo. and Minnie Schultz and her husband, Will Schultz, of Des Moines; a brother John Heston and his wife, Rose Heston, of Derby; an uncle, Jim Danner of Derby; longtime friend, Mildred Chew, of Murray; several nieces and nephews and their families.

Funeral services for Mrs. Miller were April 10 at Samuelson Funeral Home in Osceola, Pastor Marty Burgus officiating. Organist Virginia Reynolds played the musical selections, The Rose, Tears in Heaven and Beyond the Sunset.

Casket bearers were Jim Penick, Ron Adams, Bill Marvin, Andy Heston, Herman Danner and Gene Smith. Interment was in Maple Hill Cemetery at Osceola.