----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 01/ /1966

Miller, Lydia (1883 - 1966)

GREENWOOD--Mrs. Lydia Miller, 82, a lifelong resident of Greenwood, Clark County, died at 11:45 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 1, 1966 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Erna Wehrman, Greenwood.

Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Immanuel United Church of Christ with the Rev. Orval Egbert officiating. Burial will be made in the West Side Cemetery.

The body will repose at the Hill Funeral Home from Tuesday afternoon until 11 a.m. Wednesday, and then at the church.

The former Lydia Reineking was born Aug. 19, 1883, in the Town of Mead. Her marriage to Albert Miller, who preceded her in death July 13, 1950, took place May 17, 1905, at Greenwood.

After their marriage they lived on a farm west of Greenwood, and since the death of her husband, Mrs. Miller had made her home with her children.
She was a member of Immanuel United Church of Christ and its Women's Guild.

Survivors include a son, Arno, Miller, Two daughters, Mrs. Erna Wehrman and Mrs. Walter (Martha) Decker, all of Greenwood; a brother, Arthur Reineking, Grand Marsh; four sisters, Mrs. William (Hilda) Becker, and Miss Selma Reineking, Milwaukee; Mrs. Meda Vollrath, Los Angeles, Calif.; and Mrs. Amelia Decker, Sheridan, Wyo.; five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

A brother and two sisters preceded her in death.