Angie Miller

Services are scheduled at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, December 1, at Centre Avenue Baptist Church in Artesia, New Mexico for Angie Ann Miller.

Mrs. Miller, 87, died Saturday, November 26, 2011 at Texas Specialties Hospital in Lubbock, Texas after surgery at Covenant Hospital, Lubbock on October 20, 2011.

Officating at her services will be her nephew Rev. Joe Miller, Jr. of Artesia, and Rev. Ed Hickey and Rev. Kenneth Heck of Centre Ave. Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Twin Oaks Memorial Park. Pallbearers will be Preston Miller, Jody Jackson, John Robert Jackson, Toby Bennett, Dewayne Miller, and Dustin Lozano. Honorary pallbearers will be all of her adopted grandchildren.

Visitation will be at Terpening Son Mortuary beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

Mrs. Miller was born September 4, 1924 in Weed, New Mexico the daughter of James Lewis Stephens and Eva Ann Jones Stephens. She attended school in Hope and Dayton, New Mexico dropping out of school to help her mother raise the other children. She was a silk finisher at Artesia Laundry and Cleaners, a housekeeper and nanny for Donald and Kathryn Fanning south of Artesia, and a Sunday School teacher to the toddlers at Centre Ave. Baptist Church which she took great pride in.

On August 30, 1944 she was married to John Wiley Miller in Salinas, California where they operated a cafe and then moved back to Artesia in 1946 to spend the rest of her life. To this marriage she had three children, Emma Jean Douthey, John Wiley Miller, Jr. and MeAnn Smith all of Artesia.

Grannie Miller was preceded in death by her parents, her husband John Wiley, a brother James Stephens, a stepson Ronald Wayne Miller, and a grandson Terry Jay Miller.

Survivors include her children Emma Jean, Johnny, and MeAnn a stepson John Robert Miller of Las Vegas, Nevada sisters Opal Rhyne of Artesia, Alice Ruth George of Clarksville, Arkansas, and Laverne Miller of Las Vegas brother Ray Stephens of Hagerman, N.M. 13 grandchildren Dewayne Miller, Delbert Miller, Toby Bennett, Mary Ellen Self, Preston Miller, Shelly Andrus, Jody Jackson, John Robert Jackson, Brian Smith, Leslie Wells all of Artesia, Neil Miller and Robin Tole of California, and Lewis Miller of Las Vegas 28 greatgrandchildren.

She leaves us with a lifetime of loving beautiful memories and will forever live in our hearts. Her goodness overflowed in many directions to many people. She was Grannie Miller to all, even though they were not related as was loved by all that had the privilege of knowing her. She worked hard accompanying her husband in his work, never complained and gave of herself in whatever capacity was needed. She was a devoted mother, grandmother, and greatgrandmother.

Love is the heart of beauty...the soul of happiness, the very essence of life. Of these, she was all that. We will love and miss her forever. Be at peace with God.

Those who wish to get together after the services may do so at her home following the services.