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Myrna Rose <I>Balls</I> Miller

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Myrna Rose Balls Miller

Birth
Hyde Park, Cache County, Utah, USA
Death
9 Oct 2015 (aged 75)
Salem, Marion County, Oregon, USA
Burial
Ione, Morrow County, Oregon, USA GPS-Latitude: 45.5057444, Longitude: -119.8281111
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Myrna Rose Miller, beloved mother, sister, aunt and grandmother, 75 passed away and returned to her loving Father in Heaven on Friday, October 9, 2015, at the Salem Hospital in Salem, Oregon.

Myrna was born in Hyde Park, Utah on September 20, 1940, to Parley James Balls and Rosetta Elizabeth Barker Balls. She has one sister, Emilie Carolyn Balls Jacobsen Runchel 69. Myrna was raised in Hyde Park, Utah. She married William Devon Greener on June 24, 1960, at Elko, Nevada. They divorced in 1961. In 1962, she met Paul Elvin Miller at a dance in Burley, Idaho, and they married on May 18, 1963. She moved to his farm in Cecil, Oregon where they farmed wheat until the fall of 1972. In 1972, they moved to Quartzsite, Arizona, and purchased and operated a rock shop and RV supply store. Myrna and Paul loved to travel and visited 49 of the 50 states. Paul passed away on March 25, 1993.

Myrna continued to run the business and traveled to England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland. In 2000, she temporarily moved back to Hyde Park to live and care for her mother Rosetta. In 2006, she moved to Phoenix, Arizona to live with her daughter, April, and then in 2009, Myrna and April’s family moved back to Oregon. Myrna loved light houses, capitols, and LDS Temples and visited as many as she could during her travels. She was an avid collector sea shells, insulators, rocks, mineral, light houses, loved crafts, primarily needlepoint, and white cats Flash, Tai, and Knute.

Myrna is survived by her two daughters, April Tom Miller-LePage, Salem, Oregon, and Lori Mark Miller- Harris Florida, her sister, Emilie Ryan Runchel, Smithfield, Utah, her niece, Lisa Brad Triplett, Logan, Utah, her two step-grandchildren, Sonya LePage and Thomas J. LePage, Jr., her surrogate daughter, Terri Bill Rogers, her surrogate granddaughter, Andrea Andrew Muth, and their daughter Lilyann Muth, her double cousin Adrian Jennifer Barker, and 3 great nephews and 2 great nieces. She was preceded in death by her parents.

A graveside service will be held at the Ione High View Cemetery, cemetery road, Ione Oregon, on October 24, 2015, at 12:00 p.m. A reception will follow at the Community Church at 395 E. Main Street, Ione, Oregon 97843.

Donations may be made in her name to increase the awareness of Sarcoidosis to the Sarcoid Networking Association, 12619 S. Wilderness Way, Molalla, Oregon 97038 or to assist in continued research of Sarcoidosis to the Providence Foundations, P.O. Box 3338, Portland, OR 97208 503215-5546.
Myrna Rose Miller, beloved mother, sister, aunt and grandmother, 75 passed away and returned to her loving Father in Heaven on Friday, October 9, 2015, at the Salem Hospital in Salem, Oregon.

Myrna was born in Hyde Park, Utah on September 20, 1940, to Parley James Balls and Rosetta Elizabeth Barker Balls. She has one sister, Emilie Carolyn Balls Jacobsen Runchel 69. Myrna was raised in Hyde Park, Utah. She married William Devon Greener on June 24, 1960, at Elko, Nevada. They divorced in 1961. In 1962, she met Paul Elvin Miller at a dance in Burley, Idaho, and they married on May 18, 1963. She moved to his farm in Cecil, Oregon where they farmed wheat until the fall of 1972. In 1972, they moved to Quartzsite, Arizona, and purchased and operated a rock shop and RV supply store. Myrna and Paul loved to travel and visited 49 of the 50 states. Paul passed away on March 25, 1993.

Myrna continued to run the business and traveled to England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland. In 2000, she temporarily moved back to Hyde Park to live and care for her mother Rosetta. In 2006, she moved to Phoenix, Arizona to live with her daughter, April, and then in 2009, Myrna and April’s family moved back to Oregon. Myrna loved light houses, capitols, and LDS Temples and visited as many as she could during her travels. She was an avid collector sea shells, insulators, rocks, mineral, light houses, loved crafts, primarily needlepoint, and white cats Flash, Tai, and Knute.

Myrna is survived by her two daughters, April Tom Miller-LePage, Salem, Oregon, and Lori Mark Miller- Harris Florida, her sister, Emilie Ryan Runchel, Smithfield, Utah, her niece, Lisa Brad Triplett, Logan, Utah, her two step-grandchildren, Sonya LePage and Thomas J. LePage, Jr., her surrogate daughter, Terri Bill Rogers, her surrogate granddaughter, Andrea Andrew Muth, and their daughter Lilyann Muth, her double cousin Adrian Jennifer Barker, and 3 great nephews and 2 great nieces. She was preceded in death by her parents.

A graveside service will be held at the Ione High View Cemetery, cemetery road, Ione Oregon, on October 24, 2015, at 12:00 p.m. A reception will follow at the Community Church at 395 E. Main Street, Ione, Oregon 97843.

Donations may be made in her name to increase the awareness of Sarcoidosis to the Sarcoid Networking Association, 12619 S. Wilderness Way, Molalla, Oregon 97038 or to assist in continued research of Sarcoidosis to the Providence Foundations, P.O. Box 3338, Portland, OR 97208 503215-5546.


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