Miller, Floris S. Jantz (1920-2006)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2006 Dec 11 p. 12

Birth date: 1920 Nov 26

text of obituary:

FLORIS S. MILLER

Floris S. Miller, 85, of Hesston, Kan., died Nov. 24, 2006, at Schowalter Villa. She was born Nov. 26, 1920, to Emil and Sarah (Holdeman) Jantz in Goessel.

On June 19, 1952, she married Ivan Miller of Iowa City, Iowa, in Hesston.

She attended Hesston College and graduated from Goshen (Ind.) College with a bachelor of science in home economics and business. She taught school in a variety of elementary and secondary settings and business and home economics at the secondary level. Her final teaching position was with Goessel High School, where she taught business courses. She also co-owned the Miller Funeral Homes of Goessel and Hesston with her husband, and together they provided services to Goessel and Hesston and the surrounding communities for nearly 50 years.

She was an active member of the Goessel and Hesston communities, where she was a member and leader in the Goessel YWCA and GWCA and the Goessel Book Club. She was a lifelong member of Hesston Mennonite Church and active in the Dorcas Circle. Even with these many roles, her role as loving wife and mother and the making of a home mattered most to her. She spent many hours in her later years making quilts and comforters for Mennonite Central Committee.

Survivors include her husband, Ivan; a daughter, Phyllis J. Miller of Arlington, Va.; a brother, Kerwin Jantz of Newton; and a sister, Beryl Isaak of Inman.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Milferd Jantz and Winston Jantz.