Mildred Esther (Carlisle) Miller

Dateline: Lyons, Kansas

Mildred Esther Miller died on January 9, 2016 at Rice County District Hospital, Lyons. On December 18, 1923, Mildred Esther Carlisle Miller was born in a prairie farm home on the north bank of the Arkansas River to Nora Kissick Carlisle and Alfred George Carlisle of Mt. Hope, Kansas. After her high school graduation in 1941 she moved to Wichita, Kansas to attend Business College. It was in Wichita that she met Cecil W. Miller, of Lyons, Kansas, to whom she married on April 3, 1942. To their union was born three children, Sandra Kay, Gerald Cecil, and Curtis Carlisle. The couple moved to Lyons, Kansas in March of 1950 to begin farming southeast of Lyons. Mildred was a member of the First Baptist Church of Lyons, Kansas. For her lifetime she was active in her church, community, and for two decades tutoring grade school children to read. She was preceded in death by her husband Cecil on October 18, 1997, and her daughter Sandra Gram. She is survived by her sons Gerald and wife Jody Miller and Curtis and wife Jessica Miller, 6 grandchildren, and 9 great-grandchildren.

She will be missed by her family and all who knew her, yet we are comforted to know that through her faith in Jesus Christ she will live in a loving eternity with God.

Funeral Service will be 10:00 A.M., Monday, January 18, 2016 at First Baptist Church, Lyons.  Visitation will be 2:00 to 6:00 P.M., Sunday, January 17, 2016 at Birzer Funeral Home, Lyons with family present.

Memorials are suggested to First Baptist Church or Cecil & Mildred Miller Scholarship Fund at Lyons High School, in care of the funeral home.

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