Iowa
Old Press
Evening Courier & Reporter
Waterloo, Black Hawk co. Iwa
July 1, 1920
Miller Funeral Simple, Beautiful
The utmost simplicity and beauty of words and surroundings marked
the funeral yesterday of Miss Ruth Miller, 18-year-old girl who
was killed in a landslide at McGregor, Sunday. Services were at
the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John G. Miller, 505
Frederick street, and a large representation of upper and lower
classmen attended in a body. Flowers in abundance filled the room
where the body lay and at Elmwood, where interment was made.
A.H. Zilmer, speaker at Christadelphian Ecclesia, of which Miss
Miller was an attendant, had charge of the services, giving a few
words of tribute. He likened life to a vapor, fleeting and
unstationary, and Miss Miller's life in particular to a flower.
Her cheery nature and sweet character, of which her smile was an
outward sign, gave forth a fragrance like a flower. She was
beloved by her friends and most poplar with her schoolmates. Her
death was the first break in a family of 10 children.
The six young high school students who acted as pallbearers were
John Banton, George Lichty, Verne Allen, Thomas J. Roemer, Eldred
Hazelman and Glenn Miller. Honorary escorts were Pearl Hartleip,
Dorothy Scales, Mildred Court, Mabel Campbell and Elizabeth
Forrester, the remaining members of the Silent Six club of which
Miss Miller was the sixth. Maxine Thompson was the sixth honorary
attendant.
As editor of the army and navy department of the Spectator,
and a member of the Forum Literary society and Hurricane Dramatic
society, Miss Miller was known by every west high student. She
had sung in the Philomel Glee club for the past three years and
when a junior had been vice president of her class. She graduated
a year ago last June and was to have attended Iowa university
this coming fall.
[transcribed by S.F., March 2010]