Etta (McDowell) Miller (1950)

MILLER, MCDOWELL, BUCHANAN

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 2/12/2007 at 06:05:13

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, December 27, 1950

MRS. ETTA MILLER, FORMER RESIDENT DIES

(St. Charles--Special)

Mrs. Etta McDowell Miller former resident of Madison county, who was born near Patterson, died at the home of her daughter-in-law in Chicago recently. She was one of a family of fourteen children and the last to go, and a sister of the late Mrs. Mary Buchanan of this place. Funeral services were held from the Hamilton funeral home in Des Moines, with burial being made at Carlisle, her former home.

Relatives attending from St. Charles were J. H. Buchanan, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Buchanan, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Anderson, Miss Alice Anderson, Mrs. Wilma Edgar, Mack Buchanan of Martensdale, and Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Sayre, Mrs. Eldon Parker and son Lyle of Winterset. Mrs. Miller was the last of a large pioneer family.