Bertha Miller *

See Media Tab re Grandma Miller's very green thumb..

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 11, 1955 AT ST. PAUL'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH FOR MRS. JOHN F. MILLER, 64, WHO DIED AT 12:45 FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT RIVERVIEW HOSPIAL AFTER A THREE YEAR ILLNESS. THE REV. E.H. WALTHER TO OFFICIATE . BURIAL IN CALVARY CEMETERY.

MRS. MILLER, THE FORMER BERTHA ENGEL WAS BORN MAY 30, 1890, THE DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM ENGEL. SHE HAD RESIDED HERE ALL HER LIFE. SHE MARRIED JOHN F. MILLER ON JUNE 19. 1911 IN WISCONSIN RAPIDS.

SURVIVING ARE HER HUSBAND, TWO CHILDREN, MRS. KENNETH W. FISHER AND ROBERT L MILLER, WISCONSIN RAPIDS, THREE BROTHERS, ROY, GLENN AND CHARLES AND THREE SISTERS, MRS. FRED WHITROCK, MRS. WILLIAM KEGLER, AND MRS. AVOLT MARZOFKA AND FOUR GRANDCHILDREN. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY TWO BROTHERS, RAY AND WILLIAM.

MRS. MILLER WAS A MEMBER OF ST. PAUL'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH AND ITS WILLING WORKERS SOCIETY AND OF THE HORTICULTUE CLUB.

FRIENDS MAY PAY THEIR RESPECTS AT THE TAYLOR FUNERAL HOME FROM THIS EVENING UNTIL TIME OF SERVICES.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

NOTE FROM PAT - CHARLES WAS ACTUALLY A NEPHEW WHO WENT TO LIVE WITH HIS GRAND PARENTS WILLIAM AND ANNA ENEL AFTER HIS BIRTH FATHER, WILLIAM DIED AND MOTHER ISABELLE AT AGE 19 FELT UNABLE TO RAISE HIM AND HIS ONE YEAR OLD BROTHER ROBERT.

ROBERT WENT TO LIVE WITH HIS AUNT AND UNCLE JOHN AND BERTHA MILLER AND THEIR THEN 14
YEAR OLD DAUGHTER MILDRED. (MY MOTHER).