MILLER, Elizabeth (nee Adams) 1901-1951

ADAMS, MILLER, THOME

Posted By: Michael J. Petrie (email)
Date: 4/16/2007 at 06:12:18

Mrs. Miller's Rites Friday. Woman Stricken On Tuesday at Hospital Here. Funeral services for Mrs. Harvey Miller, 50, of 216 Division street who died at St. Mary's hospital yesterday afternoon, will be conducted on Friday at 9:30 a.m. in St. Henry's Catholic church. The Rev. A.J. Herrmann will officiate and interment is to be in St. Henry's cemetery.

The body will lie in state at the Boyle Funeral home after 1 p.m. Thursday and up to the time of the funeral Friday. Mrs. Miller was a native of Stacyville, Iowa, and was born February 27, 1901.

She was the former Elizabeth Adams, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Adams. She was married to Mr. Miller in Iowa on February 27, 1919. Since 1928 she had lived in Watertown.

Surviving are her husband, three daughters, Mrs. Richard Fernholz, Mrs. Kenneth Behm and Miss Agnes Miller; two sons, Peter and Raymond, all of Watertown; seven grandchildren and one sister, Miss Mathilda Adams, Osage, Iowa.

One son, Martin, preceded her in death. Mrs. Miller had not been in the best of health for some time and her death was preceded by an illness of five weeks. Mrs. Miller was a member of St. Henry's church and the Christian Mothers' confraternity. For the past four years she had been employed as a cook at the Hotel Washington.

(Watertown Daily Times, Wed. June 27, 1951, p. 3, c. 3)