GREENSBURG – Effie L. Miller, 92, died Thursday, July 8, 2010, at Good Samaritan Village in Winfield, Kan. She was born April 4, 1918, in the Coats area, the daughter of Elster Doc and Mary Juanita Bartholomew Horney. She was the last of eight children. She as raised and educated in the Haviland area and graduated Cullison High School. She was a housewife and worked as a World Book Encyclopedia salesperson, at the Big Well in Greensburg and had a cake decoration business.
She was a woman of many talents. Loved crafts of all kinds, oil painting, cake decorating, sewing, cooking, traveling and collecting cats. She was a member of Pratt United Methodist Church and never met a stranger and had many many friends.
On May 4, 1942, she married Blaine Jesse Miller. He died March 6, 1989. Survivors include: sons, Arthur Myers and wife Joy of New York, and Rev. Dan Miller and wife Ann of Texas; daughters, Linda Kay Anderson of Winfield, and Jeannie Davis and husband Dewain of Stillwater, Okla.; seven grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-granddaughter.
Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 10, 2010, at First United Methodist Church, Greensburg. Interment will be in Fairview Cemetery, Greensburg. Memorials may be made to the church, the Kiowa County Library and the American Diabetes Association, in care of Fleener Funeral Home, 514 S. Main St., Greensburg, KS 67054.
GREENSBURG – Effie L. Miller, 92, died Thursday, July 8, 2010, at Good Samaritan Village in Winfield, Kan. She was born April 4, 1918, in the Coats area, the daughter of Elster Doc and Mary Juanita Bartholomew Horney. She was the last of eight children. She as raised and educated in the Haviland area and graduated Cullison High School. She was a housewife and worked as a World Book Encyclopedia salesperson, at the Big Well in Greensburg and had a cake decoration business.
She was a woman of many talents. Loved crafts of all kinds, oil painting, cake decorating, sewing, cooking, traveling and collecting cats. She was a member of Pratt United Methodist Church and never met a stranger and had many many friends.
On May 4, 1942, she married Blaine Jesse Miller. He died March 6, 1989. Survivors include: sons, Arthur Myers and wife Joy of New York, and Rev. Dan Miller and wife Ann of Texas; daughters, Linda Kay Anderson of Winfield, and Jeannie Davis and husband Dewain of Stillwater, Okla.; seven grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-granddaughter.
Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 10, 2010, at First United Methodist Church, Greensburg. Interment will be in Fairview Cemetery, Greensburg. Memorials may be made to the church, the Kiowa County Library and the American Diabetes Association, in care of Fleener Funeral Home, 514 S. Main St., Greensburg, KS 67054.