Nora Miller

Funeral services for Nora Elizabeth Stogner Miller, 81, of Gainesville are set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home in Gainesville. Rev. Jim Upchurch, Chaplain of Autumn Journey Hospice, will officiate. Burial will follow at 4 p.m. in Mountain Park Cemetery in Saint Jo.
Visitation will be Tuesday, June 29, from 6-7 pm at Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home.
Mrs. Miller died Saturday, June 27, 2010, at Chandler Way Assisted Living in Dallas. She was born with her identical twin sister Nancy on March 17, 1929 in Cooke County near Muenster, Texas, to George W. and Annis Bailey Stogner.
She attended Mountain View School north of Saint Jo and Gainesville public schools, before leaving school to work in the service club at Camp Howze prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. She married Billy Ross Miller on July 10, 1946 and became a wife, mother and homemaker. She later returned to school, attending Cooke County Junior College and Texas Women's University in Denton, where she received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Masters Degree in Family Life. As an LVN, she worked at the Gainesville State School for Girls and in the pharmacy of the Gainesville Hospital. After becoming a licensed as a registered nurse, she worked at the Denton State School and then at North Central Texas College, where she was an instructor in the nursing program.
She was a long-time member of Whaley United Methodist Church and served on the Cooke County Arts Council. She and her husband Bill danced with the Gainesville 49'ers Square Dance Club and enjoyed traveling to attend square-dance events all over the Southwest. She especially enjoyed the love and enduring friendships of her Spirit Sisters Barbara Pybas, Naomi Austin, Alice Davidson, Mary Moore Davis, Carol Kiesel, Ann Waggoman and Dianne Webb, and the fellowship of the Christian Thinkers Sunday School Class, but her greatest joys were her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, including her namesake, Keleah Elizabeth, born to grand-daughter Leala Kelay Miller Schaffer on March 23, 2010.
Survivors include her brother Burl Stogner of Wichita Falls, Texas, and daughters and sons-in-law, Diane and Jimmy Gray of Lindsay and Judi and Chuck Burton of Farmers Branch, Linda C. Cooke of Dallas, son and daughter-in-law Jeffrey and Cynthia Miller of Pilot Point, four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 59 years, Billy Ross Miller, on July 30, 2005, parents, sisters Ruth Morrison, Irene Bailey, Oscar Stogner, and Mary Opal Kite. Her twin sister, Nancy Louisa Stogner Mitchell, passed away on July 5, 2007.
Pallbearers will be family members.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Whaley United Methodist Church Building Fund, 701 Rosedale, Gainesville, or to Autumn Journey Hospice, 5347 Spring Valley Road, Dallas, Texas 75254. You may sign the online registry at www.geojcarroll.com