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In Loving Memory
Francena Miller
1919 - 2010 |
Francena L. Miller, 91, of Columbia
passed away on Saturday, July 10, 2010, at University Hospital.
A celebration of her life for family and
friends will be held at later date.
Francena was born Jan. 29, 1919, in
Ithaca, NY, the daughter of Frank and Vienna Lounsbery. In 1966, she
married Paul A. Miller in Morgantown, WV, and enjoyed 44 years of
marriage.
She was a graduate with two degrees from Cornell
University. She then achieved her doctorate in rural sociology and
family studies at The Pennsylvania State University. She proceeded
successively through a number of noteworthy posts: professor of
rural sociology at Penn State, assistant dean and director of the
School of Home Economics at West Virginia University, dean of the
College of Home Economics at the University of Connecticut, national
director of the American Association of University Women in
Washington D.C., professor of sociology at Queens College in
Charlotte, N.C., and professor of family studies at the Rochester
(N.Y.) Institute of Technology.
Over that period, she was a leader or participant in
numerous state and national commissions on issues of women, families
and poverty. As a senior program consultant of the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation, she reviewed projects in Africa, Greece and five nations
of Latin America.
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Next, in 25 years in Rochester, she was
deeply engaged in civic projects in her major fields and, in
addition, served on several boards of banking, college and
industrial institutions. She received a variety of awards for such
civic contributions, including an honorary doctorate from Nazareth
College of Rochester.
In her later retirement years in Columbia, Francena was
especially interested in the Unitarian Universalist Church, the
women’s support group of the Missouri Symphony Society, tutoring in
English as a second language and serving on the advisory board of
MU’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
In addition to her husband, Paul, survivors include son
Michael Nolan and daughter-in law Paula of Columbia; three
grandsons, Christopher Nolan and wife Jennie and two children; Ryan
Thrush and wife Barbara and three children; and Evan Thrush and wife
Jennifer and two children. Francena had a unique and cherished
interest in and paid loving attention to the development of the
three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Francena was preceded in death by her parents, Frank
and Vienna Lounsbery; and a brother, Royden Lounsbery, all of
Ithaca.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Lounsbery and
Miller We Build Fund, the Kiwanis Club of Columbia, P.O. Box 158,
Columbia, MO, 65205.
Online condolences for the family may be left at
www.parkerfuneralservice.com .
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