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A Memorial Service for Betty Evelyn Miller, 87, of Hampton, Iowa will be held at 10:30 AM, Monday July 25, 2011 at the Hampton United Methodist Church. Betty passed away June 25, 2011 at the Franklin General Hospital in Hampton. She was born August 19, 1923 in rural Hackensack, Minnesota to Carl and Myrtle (Aylsworth) Peterson. Betty graduated from Hackensack High School in 1941. She was united in marriage to Dallas John Miller on October 2, 1944 in Backus, Minnesota. Betty loved helping and caring for others. She especially liked working with children and ran a day care center for many years. She loved to make cookies, cakes, oatmeal bread, biscuits, cinnamon rolls, doughnuts and apple and rhubarb pies to give away to family and friends. Betty loved to make phone calls, write letters and send cards to everyone she knew. She wrote a letter each day to her children when they were in the military service or college. For many years her sisters kept in touch through letter writing. Betty also loved to sew and make quilts for family and friends. Betty was a volunteer all her life. For many years she helped with the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts in Hampton. She also was a Sunshine Visitor for the Hampton United Methodist Church, delivering church bulletins and handwritten notes to patients in the nursing homes and hospital and to shut-ins. She was a volunteer with Hospice of North Iowa and Relay for Life. In the last two decades of her life, Betty's passion was the annual Franklin County Crop Walk, walking throughout Hampton collecting donations of money for Crop Walk and food for the local food pantries. Betty is survived by her children John (Kim) Miller of Pasadena, Texas, Evelyn (Myron) Hetzler of Muscatine, Iowa and Susan (James) Herman of Cincinnati, Ohio; grandchildren Dao Perez, Steven Miller, Tony Miller, Mia Lani Miller, Christina Miller, Katherine Herman and James Herman; great grandchildren Radiance, Angelito, Nicoli, Preston and Isabelle; great great grandchildren Landon and Alle'ana; brothers Russell (Burdell) Peterson of Sedro Wooley, Washington, Bob Peterson of Hackensack, Minnesota and Don (Laurie) Peterson of Hackensack, Minnesota; sisters Joyce (Don) Coder of Elk River, Minnesota and Nancy Olson of Abilene, Texas; step-brothers Ken (Kathy) Peterson, Calvin (Eunice) Peterson and Lee (Jane) Peterson. Betty was preceded in death by her parents, husband Dallas in 1991, daughter Jean Ann in 1953, brothers Jack and Carl Jr. (Sonny) and sister Peggy Norris. Inurnment took place in the Hampton Cemetery. Memorials are preferred and will be directed to the Hampton United Methodist Church or CWS (Hampton Crop Walk 2011).

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Betty E. Miller

August 19, 1923 - June 25, 2011