Annabel
Annabel Miller
d. March 28, 2013
Annabel Beck Miller of Prairie Village, Kansas passed away on March 28, 2013. A Celebration of Her Life service will be held at 10:30 AM, Saturday, April 13, at The Village Church, 6641 Mission Road, Prairie Village, Kansas. A reception will follow at the Church.
Annabel was born on August 16, 1920 to Paul V. and Belle Beck in Tonkawa, Oklahoma. She attended Tulsa Central High School and spent two years at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. She graduated from Oklahoma State University where she was a Chi Omega, with a degree in Home Economics. She taught high school for two years and married Max I. Miller on March 5, 1944. She was the Director of The Junior Red Cross in Tulsa when Max went overseas in World War II. After the war they moved to Kansas where Max completed his medical school and residency in Anesthesiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. They were blessed with three children, Annette, Max Jr., and Marilyn. Annabel was a dedicated, loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother whose family was her priority. She maintained an active role in the lives of her children by serving as room mother and scout leader for all three. When their daughter Annette taught at Prairie Elementary School, Annabel and her husband, Max, volunteered as classroom assistants for five years.
Annabel was active in the community, giving her time to organizations she believed in. She served as President of the Home Economics Association of Greater Kansas City, President of Kansas Friends of the Library, and as a member of the Kansas State PTA board. She volunteered her time as a PTA board member for Prairie Elementary School, Indian Hills Junior High School, and Shawnee Mission East High School. She also served eight years on the Board of Trustees of Southwestern College. Annabel was a member of the GM Chapter of PEO and Shawnee Mission Chapter of DAR. She enjoyed the trips she took with Max for Heart to Heart International, when they took medicine and supplies to Viet Nam, China, and India. In India she was privileged and honored to meet and shake hands with Mother Teresa.
Annabel loved gardening and being with her flowers. She enjoyed watching the birds in her yard as they bathed in her birdbath and ate the seed she put out for them. She was an avid reader and enjoyed fiction as well as keeping current with world events. Annabel loved music and watching live theater and musicals. She sang in a trio in High School and later in the Village Church Choir. She had an appreciation of great art and dabbled in painting.
Annabel was preceded in death by her husband Max, her parents, and her brothers Gerald and Maurice. She is survived by her children, Annette McLaughlin (Jim) of Prairie Village, KS, Max Miller, Jr. of Breckenridge, CO , and Marilyn Pattison (Dave) of Overland Park, KS, and her grandchildren, Erin McLaughlin, Ryan McLaughlin (Lydia), Max Miller III, Alex Miller, Cari Pattison, George Pattison (Susie), Joseph Pattison, and her great-grandson, Owen McFadden.
Annabel donated her body to the Willed Body Program at the University of Kansas Medical Center, to be followed by cremation. Her ashes will be joined with her husbands in the Memorial Garden at the Village Presbyterian Church.
In lieu of flowers Annabel requests donations be made to the Village Church Endowment Trust, or Heart to Heart International.
The family would like to thank the staff at Claridge Court and Continua Hospice for their loving care for Annabel.
Annabel was born on August 16, 1920 to Paul V. and Belle Beck in Tonkawa, Oklahoma. She attended Tulsa Central High School and spent two years at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. She graduated from Oklahoma State University where she was a Chi Omega, with a degree in Home Economics. She taught high school for two years and married Max I. Miller on March 5, 1944. She was the Director of The Junior Red Cross in Tulsa when Max went overseas in World War II. After the war they moved to Kansas where Max completed his medical school and residency in Anesthesiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. They were blessed with three children, Annette, Max Jr., and Marilyn. Annabel was a dedicated, loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother whose family was her priority. She maintained an active role in the lives of her children by serving as room mother and scout leader for all three. When their daughter Annette taught at Prairie Elementary School, Annabel and her husband, Max, volunteered as classroom assistants for five years.
Annabel was active in the community, giving her time to organizations she believed in. She served as President of the Home Economics Association of Greater Kansas City, President of Kansas Friends of the Library, and as a member of the Kansas State PTA board. She volunteered her time as a PTA board member for Prairie Elementary School, Indian Hills Junior High School, and Shawnee Mission East High School. She also served eight years on the Board of Trustees of Southwestern College. Annabel was a member of the GM Chapter of PEO and Shawnee Mission Chapter of DAR. She enjoyed the trips she took with Max for Heart to Heart International, when they took medicine and supplies to Viet Nam, China, and India. In India she was privileged and honored to meet and shake hands with Mother Teresa.
Annabel loved gardening and being with her flowers. She enjoyed watching the birds in her yard as they bathed in her birdbath and ate the seed she put out for them. She was an avid reader and enjoyed fiction as well as keeping current with world events. Annabel loved music and watching live theater and musicals. She sang in a trio in High School and later in the Village Church Choir. She had an appreciation of great art and dabbled in painting.
Annabel was preceded in death by her husband Max, her parents, and her brothers Gerald and Maurice. She is survived by her children, Annette McLaughlin (Jim) of Prairie Village, KS, Max Miller, Jr. of Breckenridge, CO , and Marilyn Pattison (Dave) of Overland Park, KS, and her grandchildren, Erin McLaughlin, Ryan McLaughlin (Lydia), Max Miller III, Alex Miller, Cari Pattison, George Pattison (Susie), Joseph Pattison, and her great-grandson, Owen McFadden.
Annabel donated her body to the Willed Body Program at the University of Kansas Medical Center, to be followed by cremation. Her ashes will be joined with her husbands in the Memorial Garden at the Village Presbyterian Church.
In lieu of flowers Annabel requests donations be made to the Village Church Endowment Trust, or Heart to Heart International.
The family would like to thank the staff at Claridge Court and Continua Hospice for their loving care for Annabel.
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