DOROTHY MILLER
DOROTHY MILLER
Dorothy Lillian Miller, 89, of Sebring, Fla., died on Oct. 4, 2012 in Avon Park, Fla. She was born Feb. 15, 1923 in Maidstone, Kent, England to the late Charles George and Lillian Gertrude Waghorn Elphee. A graduate of St. Mary's Hospital Nursing School in London, England, she spent much of her early career nursing wounded soldiers from World War II. She met her husband, Alexander George Miller, a former RAF prisoner of war, while working for what was then British European Airways (now part of British Airways) and was married on April 25, 1949 in Maidstone, Kent. In the early 1950s, she and her husband immigrated to Canada where her husband later joined the Canadian Air Force. They were stationed in the Alsace-Lorraine part of France and spent the early years of their marriage traveling frequently throughout Europe. Dorothy continued her nursing career when the family returned to Canada and then later in the 1970s after they moved to Pennsylvania. Because her high school diploma had been burned during the bombing of Britain, Dorothy, in her late 40s, studied for and passed the GED (with all its modern math) in order to sit for the Pennsylvania nursing exams which she successfully passed. She retired from Bryn Mawr Hospital, Bryn Mawr, Pa. in 1988. In the early 1990s, she and her husband retired to Sebring, Fla.
Her husband of over 55 years preceded her in death on Feb. 19, 2005. She leaves two daughters, Sally Miller (Michael King) and Ruth Miller, and two granddaughters, Meghan Elizabeth King and Jillian Alexandra King.
Burial services will be private.
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