June 11, 1992 obituary in the Suburban and Wayne (PA) Times:
Bertha Redifer Miller, a resident since 1979 of the McLean Home, Simsbury, died Wednesday, June 3, 1992, at the age of 94.
Born in Narberth, PA, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. Perry Redifer, she was the widow of Arthur P. Miller, a sanitary engineer director and career officer of the U.S. Public Health Service. In 1922 they started their married life in Yellowstone National Park where Mr. Miller was in charge of the construction of the early water and sewage treatment facilities for the park.
In an era when higher education for women was the exception rather than the rule, Mrs. Miller graduated in 1919 from Penn State University with a degree in home economics, and she lived all her adult life successfully fulfilling the many roles that the true meaning of home (and Family) economist implies: devoted wife, loving mother, nutritionist, cook, teacher, seamstress, mediator, counselor, and generally the steady and nurturing pivotal figure around whom centers all family activity.
In and around this career in Teaneck, N.J., and Washington, D.C., she gave generously of herself as a friend, in support of her church as a choir member, to her country as a longtime Gray Lady volunteer, and in her community with active participation in a mixed choral concert group she helped to organize.
She moved from her long-time home in Washington, D.C. to Simsbury, in 1979.
She will be greatly missed by her son, Arthur P. Miller Jr. of Wayne, Pa.; her daughter, Barbara Elliott Smachetti of Avon, Ct.; eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Memorial services were held at the McLean Home in Simsbury on Saturday, June 6. Contriburtions may be made to the Bertha Miller Memorial Fund, McLean Home, 75 Great Pond Road, Simsbury, Ct., 06070 for a landscaping contribution to the home. Burial will be at the West Laurel Hills Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
[ A gazebo in her memory later was dedicated at the home from that fund. ]
Bertha Redifer Miller, a resident since 1979 of the McLean Home, Simsbury, died Wednesday, June 3, 1992, at the age of 94.
Born in Narberth, PA, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. Perry Redifer, she was the widow of Arthur P. Miller, a sanitary engineer director and career officer of the U.S. Public Health Service. In 1922 they started their married life in Yellowstone National Park where Mr. Miller was in charge of the construction of the early water and sewage treatment facilities for the park.
In an era when higher education for women was the exception rather than the rule, Mrs. Miller graduated in 1919 from Penn State University with a degree in home economics, and she lived all her adult life successfully fulfilling the many roles that the true meaning of home (and Family) economist implies: devoted wife, loving mother, nutritionist, cook, teacher, seamstress, mediator, counselor, and generally the steady and nurturing pivotal figure around whom centers all family activity.
In and around this career in Teaneck, N.J., and Washington, D.C., she gave generously of herself as a friend, in support of her church as a choir member, to her country as a longtime Gray Lady volunteer, and in her community with active participation in a mixed choral concert group she helped to organize.
She moved from her long-time home in Washington, D.C. to Simsbury, in 1979.
She will be greatly missed by her son, Arthur P. Miller Jr. of Wayne, Pa.; her daughter, Barbara Elliott Smachetti of Avon, Ct.; eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Memorial services were held at the McLean Home in Simsbury on Saturday, June 6. Contriburtions may be made to the Bertha Miller Memorial Fund, McLean Home, 75 Great Pond Road, Simsbury, Ct., 06070 for a landscaping contribution to the home. Burial will be at the West Laurel Hills Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
[ A gazebo in her memory later was dedicated at the home from that fund. ]
June 11, 1992 obituary in the Suburban and Wayne (PA) Times:
Bertha Redifer Miller, a resident since 1979 of the McLean Home, Simsbury, died Wednesday, June 3, 1992, at the age of 94.
Born in Narberth, PA, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. Perry Redifer, she was the widow of Arthur P. Miller, a sanitary engineer director and career officer of the U.S. Public Health Service. In 1922 they started their married life in Yellowstone National Park where Mr. Miller was in charge of the construction of the early water and sewage treatment facilities for the park.
In an era when higher education for women was the exception rather than the rule, Mrs. Miller graduated in 1919 from Penn State University with a degree in home economics, and she lived all her adult life successfully fulfilling the many roles that the true meaning of home (and Family) economist implies: devoted wife, loving mother, nutritionist, cook, teacher, seamstress, mediator, counselor, and generally the steady and nurturing pivotal figure around whom centers all family activity.
In and around this career in Teaneck, N.J., and Washington, D.C., she gave generously of herself as a friend, in support of her church as a choir member, to her country as a longtime Gray Lady volunteer, and in her community with active participation in a mixed choral concert group she helped to organize.
She moved from her long-time home in Washington, D.C. to Simsbury, in 1979.
She will be greatly missed by her son, Arthur P. Miller Jr. of Wayne, Pa.; her daughter, Barbara Elliott Smachetti of Avon, Ct.; eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Memorial services were held at the McLean Home in Simsbury on Saturday, June 6. Contriburtions may be made to the Bertha Miller Memorial Fund, McLean Home, 75 Great Pond Road, Simsbury, Ct., 06070 for a landscaping contribution to the home. Burial will be at the West Laurel Hills Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
[ A gazebo in her memory later was dedicated at the home from that fund. ]
Bertha Redifer Miller, a resident since 1979 of the McLean Home, Simsbury, died Wednesday, June 3, 1992, at the age of 94.
Born in Narberth, PA, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. Perry Redifer, she was the widow of Arthur P. Miller, a sanitary engineer director and career officer of the U.S. Public Health Service. In 1922 they started their married life in Yellowstone National Park where Mr. Miller was in charge of the construction of the early water and sewage treatment facilities for the park.
In an era when higher education for women was the exception rather than the rule, Mrs. Miller graduated in 1919 from Penn State University with a degree in home economics, and she lived all her adult life successfully fulfilling the many roles that the true meaning of home (and Family) economist implies: devoted wife, loving mother, nutritionist, cook, teacher, seamstress, mediator, counselor, and generally the steady and nurturing pivotal figure around whom centers all family activity.
In and around this career in Teaneck, N.J., and Washington, D.C., she gave generously of herself as a friend, in support of her church as a choir member, to her country as a longtime Gray Lady volunteer, and in her community with active participation in a mixed choral concert group she helped to organize.
She moved from her long-time home in Washington, D.C. to Simsbury, in 1979.
She will be greatly missed by her son, Arthur P. Miller Jr. of Wayne, Pa.; her daughter, Barbara Elliott Smachetti of Avon, Ct.; eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Memorial services were held at the McLean Home in Simsbury on Saturday, June 6. Contriburtions may be made to the Bertha Miller Memorial Fund, McLean Home, 75 Great Pond Road, Simsbury, Ct., 06070 for a landscaping contribution to the home. Burial will be at the West Laurel Hills Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
[ A gazebo in her memory later was dedicated at the home from that fund. ]
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