Merna June Best Miller
Merna June Best Miller, 87, of Marietta, passed away on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, at 2:55 am at Heartland Nursing Home.
She was born on June 22, 1924, in Marietta to the late Carl and Clara Knoch Best. Following graduation from Marietta High School in 1942, she went to work at Broughton’s Dairy as a bookkeeper. Merna was a homemaker most of her life and loved to raise flowers, read, study the Bible and play her organ. She was a life member of St. Paul Evangelical Church, 401 Fifth Street, Marietta.
On September 1, 1945, she married Beman Miller who survives with 2 sons: Brian (Mary) of Bedford, WY, Michael (Kim) of Marietta, daughter-in-law Janet of Amherst, OH; grandchildren: Tim Miller of Singapore, Scott Miller of Amherst, Jill Randall and Matthew Miller of Jackson, WY, Jamie Caparulo of Los Angeles, Katie Miller of Marietta; 2 great grandchildren, Logan and Morgan Miller of Amherst, OH.
She was preceded in death by her parents, son Ronald Miller, brother Harold Best and sister Gertrude Smith.
Funeral services will be held on Friday (June 8) at 11:00 am at St. Paul Evangelical Church with Pastor Tom Hendershot officiating. Burial will follow at East Lawn Memorial Park. Friends may call at McClure-Schafer-Lankford Funeral Home on Thursday afternoon from 2:00 with family present 2-4 & 6-8. Messages of sympathy may be sent at www.mslfuneralhome.com.