Mildred Sarah Miller

Mildred S. Miller age 98 of Balaton, MN died Friday, August 9, 2013 at the Colonial Manor Nursing Home in Balaton. Services will be 11:00 AM Monday, August 12, 2013 at Sillerud Lutheran Church, rural Balaton. Visitation will be from 4:00 until 8:00 PM Sunday, August 11, 2013 at the Almlie Funeral Home in Balaton, with a prayer service at 7:00 PM. Interment will be in the Sillerud Lutheran Cemetery, with a luncheon served in the church social hall immediately following the burial. The Almlie Funeral Home of Balaton is handling the arrangements. Mildred Sarah Miller was born July 24, 1915 to Ralph and Jennie (Larson) Seaman in Russell, MN, Lyon County. Over the years they lived in St. Croix Falls, WI and Pontiac, MI, before returning Russell. She was baptized in 1931 in the Presbyterian Church in Russell and confirmed in 1944 at the Sillerud Lutheran Church of Balaton. Mildred attended Russell High School and was Co-Valedictorian of her senior class, graduating in 1933. On May 26, 1944 Mildred married James Miller at the Sillerud parsonage and they made their home in rural Balaton, MN. Besides being a housewife and mother, Mildred also worked as a grocery store clerk, a waitress and as a postal clerk. She was a past member of the Presbyterian Church in Russell and a current member of the Sillerud Lutheran Church, where she had been active through the years in Ladies Aid, church quilting and was a member of the Degree of Honor. Mildred enjoyed baking, sewing, quilting, traveling and gardening, but her greatest love was spending time with her family and the many grand, great and great-great grandchildren. On December 31, of 2004 she moved to the Balaton Assisted Living and in October of 2007 Mildred became a resident of the Colonial Manor Nursing Home in Balaton, where she died, surrounded by her loving family, on Friday, August 9, 2013 at the age of 98. Mildred is survived by her four daughters, Charlene (Marvin) Chandler of Balaton, MN, Yvonne (Bruce) Wee of Balaton, MN, Elaine (Greg) Curry of Hutchinson, MN, and Kathy (Steve) Spielman of Balaton, MN; one son, John (Claryce) Miller of Tracy, MN; fifteen grandchildren; fourteen great grandchildren; eight great-great grandchildren; nieces, nephews and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, daughter, Beverly, two sisters, Vera Hillquist and Ellen Schroeder, granddaughter, Amy, and Buddy, her dog.