Married 30 Sep 1908 to Otto Traugott Mueller (Miller).
According to family lore, Lillie changed their last name to "Miller" toward the end of WWI, by going out to the mailbox and changing the spelling.
She made biscuits every morning and they were wonderful.
Obituary in the Southeastern Missourian Cape Girardeau, MO on 14 April 1983.
Mrs. Lillie May Miller
Jackson – Mrs. Lillie May Miller, of Jackson, died at 2:10 a.m. today in The Lutheran Home at Cape Girardeau, where she had been a resident for eight weeks. She was 93 years old.
Mrs. Miller, the former Miss Harmon, was born in Cape County, on June 29, 1889, a daughter of Louis and Polly Statler Harmon. On Sept. 30, 1908, she was married to Otto T. Miller, who died Sept. 24, 1974.
The Millers resided in the Gordonville community, moving to Jackson in 1948. She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson.
Surviving are a son, Otto Miller Jr., Jackson Route 2; five daughters, Mrs. Marie Headrick and Mrs. Edna Mae Allen, both of Jackson, Mrs. Grace Barranco, Columbia, SC, Mrs. Polly Nickerson, Kingston, NY, and Mrs. Louise Nickerson, Saugerties, NY; a sister, Mrs. Emma Hayden, Cape Girardeau; 16 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by one brother, a sister and a half brother.
Funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson. The Rev. Earl E. Weis, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, will officiate, and burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery here.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. Friday.
According to family lore, Lillie changed their last name to "Miller" toward the end of WWI, by going out to the mailbox and changing the spelling.
She made biscuits every morning and they were wonderful.
Obituary in the Southeastern Missourian Cape Girardeau, MO on 14 April 1983.
Mrs. Lillie May Miller
Jackson – Mrs. Lillie May Miller, of Jackson, died at 2:10 a.m. today in The Lutheran Home at Cape Girardeau, where she had been a resident for eight weeks. She was 93 years old.
Mrs. Miller, the former Miss Harmon, was born in Cape County, on June 29, 1889, a daughter of Louis and Polly Statler Harmon. On Sept. 30, 1908, she was married to Otto T. Miller, who died Sept. 24, 1974.
The Millers resided in the Gordonville community, moving to Jackson in 1948. She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson.
Surviving are a son, Otto Miller Jr., Jackson Route 2; five daughters, Mrs. Marie Headrick and Mrs. Edna Mae Allen, both of Jackson, Mrs. Grace Barranco, Columbia, SC, Mrs. Polly Nickerson, Kingston, NY, and Mrs. Louise Nickerson, Saugerties, NY; a sister, Mrs. Emma Hayden, Cape Girardeau; 16 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by one brother, a sister and a half brother.
Funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson. The Rev. Earl E. Weis, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, will officiate, and burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery here.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. Friday.
Married 30 Sep 1908 to Otto Traugott Mueller (Miller).
According to family lore, Lillie changed their last name to "Miller" toward the end of WWI, by going out to the mailbox and changing the spelling.
She made biscuits every morning and they were wonderful.
Obituary in the Southeastern Missourian Cape Girardeau, MO on 14 April 1983.
Mrs. Lillie May Miller
Jackson – Mrs. Lillie May Miller, of Jackson, died at 2:10 a.m. today in The Lutheran Home at Cape Girardeau, where she had been a resident for eight weeks. She was 93 years old.
Mrs. Miller, the former Miss Harmon, was born in Cape County, on June 29, 1889, a daughter of Louis and Polly Statler Harmon. On Sept. 30, 1908, she was married to Otto T. Miller, who died Sept. 24, 1974.
The Millers resided in the Gordonville community, moving to Jackson in 1948. She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson.
Surviving are a son, Otto Miller Jr., Jackson Route 2; five daughters, Mrs. Marie Headrick and Mrs. Edna Mae Allen, both of Jackson, Mrs. Grace Barranco, Columbia, SC, Mrs. Polly Nickerson, Kingston, NY, and Mrs. Louise Nickerson, Saugerties, NY; a sister, Mrs. Emma Hayden, Cape Girardeau; 16 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by one brother, a sister and a half brother.
Funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson. The Rev. Earl E. Weis, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, will officiate, and burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery here.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. Friday.
According to family lore, Lillie changed their last name to "Miller" toward the end of WWI, by going out to the mailbox and changing the spelling.
She made biscuits every morning and they were wonderful.
Obituary in the Southeastern Missourian Cape Girardeau, MO on 14 April 1983.
Mrs. Lillie May Miller
Jackson – Mrs. Lillie May Miller, of Jackson, died at 2:10 a.m. today in The Lutheran Home at Cape Girardeau, where she had been a resident for eight weeks. She was 93 years old.
Mrs. Miller, the former Miss Harmon, was born in Cape County, on June 29, 1889, a daughter of Louis and Polly Statler Harmon. On Sept. 30, 1908, she was married to Otto T. Miller, who died Sept. 24, 1974.
The Millers resided in the Gordonville community, moving to Jackson in 1948. She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson.
Surviving are a son, Otto Miller Jr., Jackson Route 2; five daughters, Mrs. Marie Headrick and Mrs. Edna Mae Allen, both of Jackson, Mrs. Grace Barranco, Columbia, SC, Mrs. Polly Nickerson, Kingston, NY, and Mrs. Louise Nickerson, Saugerties, NY; a sister, Mrs. Emma Hayden, Cape Girardeau; 16 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by one brother, a sister and a half brother.
Funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson. The Rev. Earl E. Weis, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, will officiate, and burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery here.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. Friday.
