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August 17, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, August 20, 2013 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 8:30 AM beginning at the funeral home and then proceeding to Holy Cross RC Church, 17 Van Duyne Ave., Wayne for a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 AM.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Evelyn “Evie” M. Miller (nee Fitzgerald) age 81 of Wayne died peacefully at home on Saturday, August 17, 2013.
Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, she was a member of the Roslindale High School Class of 1949 and continued her education at Boston State Teachers College, graduating in 1953 with a BA in Elementary Education.
She began her teaching career at Athens Elementary School in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and then taught at Indian Orchard Elementary School in Springfield, Massachusetts. After raising her children, she worked for the Wayne Board of Education, teaching at Schuyler Colfax Middle School, Wayne Hills High School, and retired from Pines Lake School in 2001, where she taught second and fifth grades for many years. She was a dedicated and committed teacher who truly loved her job.
She met her husband, John “Jack” J. Miller, through mutual friends at Revere Beach, Massachusetts. Many dates were spent at Revere Beach, where Jack also worked on the boardwalk. They enjoyed dancing at Mosley’s on the Charles and roller skating at Chez Vous roller rink in Mattapan, MA. Evie was an accomplished Roller Dancer who competed and won many awards and titles for her skating.
Evie and Jack were married at Saint Theresa’s Church in West Roxbury, Massachusetts on October 5, 1957, and honeymooned in Virginia. Evie and Jack lived in many different parts of the United States including Springfield, Massachusetts, Chicago, Illinois, and Rochester, New York before settling in Wayne forty-five years ago. Evelyn, Jack and their children spent many vacations traveling with their camper which provided many fond memories, including annual spring vacation trips with friends and family to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Another source of cherished memories were the weeks they spent at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. Evie and Jack enjoyed a devoted and loving thirty-eight year marriage before Jack’s passing in 1995.
Evie took great pleasure in tending her gardens and house plants, and had a special fondness for her roses, blueberry bushes, and African violets.
She was devoted to her Catholic faith and was a parishioner of Holy Cross RC Church in Wayne for over forty years. She was a founding member of the Servants of the Holy Cross, Friday Night Prayer Group, a Eucharistic Minister, and a member of the Holy Cross Crowd (an informal women’s social group).
Evie was the loving wife of the late John “Jack” J. Miller (1995); devoted mother of Carolyn Lanigan and her husband John of Rockaway, Shirley Miller and her husband John of Sparta, and John Miller and his wife Jennifer of Stockholm; cherished grandmother of Elizabeth Lanigan, Jacqueline Lanigan, Katharine Miller, Amy Miller, and Christine Miller; dear sister of three siblings who predeceased her.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Eva’s Village, 393 Main Street, Paterson, NJ 07501, would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, August 20, 2013 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 8:30 AM beginning at the funeral home and then proceeding to Holy Cross RC Church, 17 Van Duyne Ave., Wayne for a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 AM.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
August 17, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, August 20, 2013 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 8:30 AM beginning at the funeral home and then proceeding to Holy Cross RC Church, 17 Van Duyne Ave., Wayne for a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 AM.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Evelyn “Evie” M. Miller (nee Fitzgerald) age 81 of Wayne died peacefully at home on Saturday, August 17, 2013.
Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, she was a member of the Roslindale High School Class of 1949 and continued her education at Boston State Teachers College, graduating in 1953 with a BA in Elementary Education.
She began her teaching career at Athens Elementary School in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and then taught at Indian Orchard Elementary School in Springfield, Massachusetts. After raising her children, she worked for the Wayne Board of Education, teaching at Schuyler Colfax Middle School, Wayne Hills High School, and retired from Pines Lake School in 2001, where she taught second and fifth grades for many years. She was a dedicated and committed teacher who truly loved her job.
She met her husband, John “Jack” J. Miller, through mutual friends at Revere Beach, Massachusetts. Many dates were spent at Revere Beach, where Jack also worked on the boardwalk. They enjoyed dancing at Mosley’s on the Charles and roller skating at Chez Vous roller rink in Mattapan, MA. Evie was an accomplished Roller Dancer who competed and won many awards and titles for her skating.
Evie and Jack were married at Saint Theresa’s Church in West Roxbury, Massachusetts on October 5, 1957, and honeymooned in Virginia. Evie and Jack lived in many different parts of the United States including Springfield, Massachusetts, Chicago, Illinois, and Rochester, New York before settling in Wayne forty-five years ago. Evelyn, Jack and their children spent many vacations traveling with their camper which provided many fond memories, including annual spring vacation trips with friends and family to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Another source of cherished memories were the weeks they spent at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. Evie and Jack enjoyed a devoted and loving thirty-eight year marriage before Jack’s passing in 1995.
Evie took great pleasure in tending her gardens and house plants, and had a special fondness for her roses, blueberry bushes, and African violets.
She was devoted to her Catholic faith and was a parishioner of Holy Cross RC Church in Wayne for over forty years. She was a founding member of the Servants of the Holy Cross, Friday Night Prayer Group, a Eucharistic Minister, and a member of the Holy Cross Crowd (an informal women’s social group).
Evie was the loving wife of the late John “Jack” J. Miller (1995); devoted mother of Carolyn Lanigan and her husband John of Rockaway, Shirley Miller and her husband John of Sparta, and John Miller and his wife Jennifer of Stockholm; cherished grandmother of Elizabeth Lanigan, Jacqueline Lanigan, Katharine Miller, Amy Miller, and Christine Miller; dear sister of three siblings who predeceased her.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Eva’s Village, 393 Main Street, Paterson, NJ 07501, would be appreciated.
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