OBIT: Maggie (SMITH) MILLER, 1932, formerly of Blair County, PA

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MRS. MAGGIE MILLER
 
A Resident of Tyrone For Seventy Years, Died in Lock Haven
 
  On Sunday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock, Mrs. Maggie Miller, widow of 
Alonzo Miller passed away at the home of her son, Harry S. Miller, at 
Lock Haven, of paralysis, after only a few hours illness.  "Grannie" 
Miller resided in Tyrone for 70 years and witnessed the growth of the 
community from only a few houses to its' present large proportions.  To 
the kiddies and many of the older folks residing in the Eleventh Street 
section of the town, she was familiarly known as "Grannie" Miller, who 
remember her as one of the elderly women of the town who endeavored to 
make others happy who came in contact with her.  Mrs. Maggie (Smith) 
Miller was born at Lewistown on November 20, 1851, and came to Tyrone 
when just a girl.  On May 18, 1869, at McVeytown, she was united in 
marriage with Alonzo Miller, who preceded her to the grave a number of 
years ago.  Surviving her passing are these sons and daughters: Charles 
E. Miller, Bellefonte, Pa.; Harry S. Miller, Lock Haven, Pa.; Fred 
Andrew Miller, Johnsonburg, Pa.; Mrs. Samuel Beegle, Saint Petersburg, 
Florida; Mrs. Earl McCahan, Tyrone, Pa., and John Miller, Tyrone.  One 
son and two daughters preceded her to the grave.  Thirty-eight 
grandchildren and thirty-eight great grandchildren also survive.  Mrs. 
Miller was a member of the First Presbyterian church of Tyrone and the 
Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.  The body 
will be brought overland from Lock Haven on Wednesday morning, reaching 
Tyrone about ten o'clock and will be taken to Mrs. Earl McCahan's home 
at 1250 Woodland Avenue, where funeral services will be conducted by 
Reverend Dr. Joseph A. Speer at 2:30.  Interment in Grandview Cemetery.  
The body may be viewed from 10 a.m. to the time of the funeral.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., October 3, 1932