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Sr Margaret Dolores Miller

27 Dec 1933 – 21 Oct 2010

Birth27 Dec 1933
Death21 Oct 2010
CemeteryMount Olivet Cemetery
Fort Worth , Tarrant County , Texas , USA
Added byDebbie Gibbons on 21 Oct 2012
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Sister Margaret Miller, 76, died Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010, in Fort Worth, Texas. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Bartholomew Catholic Church. Interment will be at Mount Olivet Cemetery. Wake will be 7 p.m. Monday at Our Lady of Victory. Sister Margaret Dolores, daughter of the late Frank S. Miller and Philomena Pavlicek Miller, was born in Waco, Texas, and spent her childhood there. She attended Sacred Heart Academy and graduated from Waco High School in May 1951. She entered the Sisters of St. Mary of Namur at Our Lady of Victory in Fort Worth, Sept. 8, 1951, and took Sister Mary Vianney as her religious name. Later she returned to her baptismal name, Sister Margaret Miller. Sister Margaret taught elementary and secondary school for 19 years and her students at Nolan Catholic High School applauded her as an excellent math teacher. She engaged in pastoral and social work in schools and parishes in Texas. She earned a B.A. in history at Incarnate Word College, an M.S. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame and an M.A. in sociology (criminology) from Sam Houston State University. When Margaret was 39, she was diagnosed with an illness which prevented her working actively in the apostolate. Although the diagnosis stated she had only a short time to live, Margaret organized and operated the OLV Gift Shop for 20 years, selling handmade articles that she and other sisters and friends had crafted. The profits went to the sisters' retirement fund. For 10 years, Margaret served as contact person of her province for women interested in becoming Sisters of St. Mary. In 1999 Margaret began a website for the Western Province of the Sisters of St. Mary. Five years later she was asked by the general council to set up and be the webmaster of an international website, which she did with the help of a computer technician. She overcame the limitations of her poor health to reach out to a wide variety of friends and to keep abreast of all the activities of the sisters in the provinces of the congregation. Margaret was preceded in death by a sister. She is survived by her brothers, the Rev. Msgr. Frank Miller and Eugene Miller; sister, Frances Pustejovsky and husband, Emil; brother-in-law, Ed Carpenter; numerous nephews and nieces; and the sisters of her religious congregation. Waco Tribune: 10/24/2010...TG4

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