Miller, Mary M. (1897-1963)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1963 Sep 26 p. 3

Birth date: 1897 Jan 6

text of obituary:

Long-Time Hesston College Teacher Dies

Hesston, Kan. — Mary M. Miller, instructor in English and foreign languages at Hesston College for more than30 years, died Saturday morning at Bethel Deaconess Hospital in Newton. She had been in failing health for some months.

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at the Hesston Mennonite Church, and burial was made in the Protection Mennonite cemetery at Protection, Kan.

Miss Miller was born at West Liberty, Ohio on Jan. 6, 1897, the daughter of Noah E. and Sophronia Miller. The family lived at various places in Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas before moving to Hesston in 1920.

After teaching in rural and city elementary schools, Miss Miller graduated from Hesston College in 1926 and began teaching at the college the same year. She received the master's degree from the University of Kansas in 1928. Her service at Hesston included eight years as dean of women. Since her retirement in 1961 she had lived at Schowalter Villa.

Survivors include six brothers and two sisters.

(A memorial tribute to Miss Miller will appear in a later issue of the review.)

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