Lucille Miller

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Lucille (Willis) Miller, 87, of Olive Branch passed away Friday, Jan. 1, 2016, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau.

She was born March 14, 1928, at Miller City, Illinois, the daughter of Roy Arnold and Georgia Ersa (Morningstar) Willis. She was married on Oct. 5, 1947, to Lloyd "Jack" Miller. He preceded her in death on April 13, 2013.

Lucille attended Tamms (Illinois) High School and then graduated from Olive Branch High School in 1946. After graduation, she started working at First Bank and Trust Company in Cairo, Illinois.

After her marriage to Jack, they moved to East Moline, Illinois, where they resided for 43 years. While in East Moline, she worked for 20 years as receptionist/manager for an anesthesia group, retiring in 1985. She and Jack retired to a home on Horseshoe Lake in Olive Branch in 1990. She was a member of the Olive Branch United Methodist Church.

Survivors include grandchildren Rebecca Vonderheide of Cincinnati and William and Richard Miller, both of Myrtle Beach, Florida, and many nieces and nephews whom she dearly loved.

Besides her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by her son, Jackie Miller, in 2014; a brother, Allen Willis; and two sisters, Freida Dowdy and Verta Lee Oller.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms and from 9 to 10 a.m. Friday at the Olive Branch United Methodist Church.

Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the church, with the pastor, the Rev. Brent Gordon, officiating. Interment will follow in Mound City National Cemetery.

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