Miller, Dagmar 1885-1976

MILLER, LUND, EGEDE, STOVRING

Posted By: Howard
Date: 4/1/2016 at 12:07:03

Funeral services for Dagmar Miller were held Monday, Jan. 3 at St. John's Lutheran Church with the Rev. Fred Ollendorf and Leo Andersen officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery.

Miss Miller died Dec. 31, 1976, at the Valborg Lutheran Home in Des Moines.

Dagmar Magdeline Miller was born Dec. 30, 1885, in Fredsville, Cedar Falls, the daughter of the late Kirsten and Peter Miller.

She attended the rural schools of Grundy County until 1892 when the family moved to Franklin County and to the farm in Hamilton township which became the Miller family farm home throughout the years.

After receiving an eighth grade diploma, she attended an adult school, winter session sponsored by St. John's Lutheran Church of Hamilton Township and held at the parish hall. Later she attended Iowa State Normal School at Cedar Falls, and Grand View College, Des Moines, and prepared herself for the teaching profession.
This she pursued in rural schools of Franklin County and in the grade schools of Askov and Tyler, Minn.

In 1916 the Bishop Ostenfeld of Denmark, head of the Santal Mission of India, attended a church convention of the then American Evangelical Lutheran Church meeting in Newell, and offered Dagmar a position as nurse in the mission. This she accepted and the A.E.L. Church became her sponsor.

Shortly thereafter Dagmar entered Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess Hospital in Minneapolis and started a three year nurse's training course there.

Upon completion of this course and a Bible Study Course at Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.
Dagmar returned to her home in Hampton and prepared for the trip.

In March of 1920, Dagmar Miller was commissioned as missionary in St. John's Church by Synod's chairman of the Santal Mission, Pastor Adam Dan, Chicago, by the local pastor, H. Juhl, and her father, Peter Miller. In October of that year she left for India from the old railroad station at Coulter. For 20 years Dagmar Miller worked in the Santal Mission, much of the time among the women of India, and taught them helpful things for richer, fuller living through the joy of knowing there is an almighty God who cares for his children.

She found this labor rewarding.

During her several furloughs she traveled extensively to interest and inform people about the work of the Santal Mission.

Upon retiring in 1940, Dagmar continued to travel as speaker. After these active years, Dagmar Miller made her home, first with her sister Mrs. P.L. Lund, des Moines, and later at the Valborg Lutheran Home for the Aged at Des Moines.
She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters and two brothers.

Surviving are sisters Miss Anna Miller, Des Moines, Mrs. Peter Lund (Mette) Hampton and Mrs. Hans Egede (Ida) Hampton, Mrs. Sigurd Stovring (Ruth) Askov, Minn., and brothers A.B.P. Miller and Ezra P. Miller, Hampton, by nieces and nephews.

Hampton times December 20, 1994