Effingham County IL Archives Obituaries.....Miller, Doris July 26, 1922
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Dieterich Special Gazette  7-27-1922
     Doris M.S., daughter of Christian and Caroline Kunst, was born near 
Hamburg, Germany, Feb. 15, 1845, and died in Dieterich, Ill., July 26, 1922, 
coincidently on the same day of week Wednesday, and the same date of month, 
26, that her husband died five years ago.
     In 1857 she migrated with the family to America, where they settle at 
Lyons, Ill., now a suburb of Chicago, and at the age of 13 years, Doris found 
domestic employment to help support her brothers and sisters, of which she was 
the oldest.
      In 1862 she was married to Gustav Miller, who also migrated with his 
family from Germany, in 1850. To this union were born three children, Fred G., 
Theodore F. and Mrs. Emma Gust, all of whom were at her bedside in her last 
days continually until the peaceful end.  
     In the spring of 1873 they moved to this county, on a farm 1 mile east 
and 3/4 mile north of Dieterich, where they by hard and diligent work 
prospered and retired from their labors about 23 years ago, when they moved to 
Dieterich, where they both peacefully spent their declining years. 
     None ever entered her home without a warm welcome, nor left without 
feeling the warmth of a genuine hospitality, so characteristic of the people 
of her ancestry. Disease did not destroy the charm of a kind, indulgent 
disposition, nor old age diminish her unselfish solicitude for her friends and 
loved one. Adhering to the faith of her fathers she united with the Lutheran 
church in early life and loved to attend its services when health permitted. 
While she has continued the society of her friends and children, she has for 
several years realized that her active life was over and with resignation 
awaited the Divine call from death unto life. 
     Her two sons and daughter, six grandchildren and six great grandchildren, 
two brothers, two sisters and a host of friends in this and Jasper county 
survive her.
     A large concourse of friends and relatives attended the funeral services 
at St. Paul's Lutheran church last Friday.

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