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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271379
Title: Lorraine M. Miller
Date: 7/30/1934-12/20/2024
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Inscription/Marks: 7/30/1934
Summary: Lorraine M. Miller, 90, of Hebron, ND, passed away December 20, 2024, at Knife River Care Center in Beulah, ND. A funeral was held December 26, 2024, at Stevenson Funeral Home in Hebron. Burial was at the Baptist Cemetery in Hebron. She was a devoted wife, a dedicated mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Lorraine Magdalena Heinle was the daughter of Philip and Lena (Heinle) Heinle and was born on July 30, 1934. Her father passed away when she was only seven years old, leaving her mom, her two brothers (Wilbert and Paul Heinle) and her to care for the family farm located southwest of Hebron. Lorraine was eight years old when an Evangelist came to the First Baptist Church of Hebron for special meetings. It was during one of these services that she accepted the Lord as her Savior. Several weeks later, she was baptized along with her two brothers and several cousins. She remembered her brother Wilbert, holding her hand after she was baptized, showing her in his quiet way that he was proud of her. Lorraine met Karl Jacob Miller at a wedding shower. They were married December 27, 1953, at the Baptist Church in Hebron. This union was blessed with three children, Leona (Johnny) Flemmer, of Golden Valley, ND, Lee (Jeanne) Miller, of Glen Ullin, ND, and Lyle (Lisa) Miller, of Newton, KS; 6 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. She was privileged to be able to live most of her life on a farm and relished the peaceful, quiet lifestyle. After she married Karl, they moved to the Miller homestead south of Glen Ullin where she continued to live even after Karl passed away. At the time, she moved into a trailer house on the property and lived there until she made the big decision to move to Hebron, to be closer to church and friends. She missed having her own garden and the quiet of the country but knew it was time to make the change. After a couple years, circumstances had her move to a basic care center in Hazen, ND. In September 2024, she moved to Knife River Care Center. Lorraine loved to garden, sew and quilt. She was very good at looking at new clothing styles in the department stores, going home and replicating those garments for her family. As a self-taught seamstress, she did her research and would plan how to construct new garments for her family. Her specialty was making western-style shirts and ties noted for cowboys for her husband. Later, she sewed special dresses for her granddaughters every Christmas and Easter, and even made the wedding dress for one of her daughters-in-law. Lorraine’s hands were rarely idle. If she wasn’t sewing, then she would be quilting or crocheting. Each of her grandchildren received a hand-made quilt for graduation. She enjoyed appliqueing quilt blocks, embroidering them and turning them into beautiful, impeccably made quilts. Lorraine’s greatest joy was her garden. Every morning was spent looking at each plant and plucking weeds from around the tender shoots. She had a large garden plot beside the trailer where she would plant row after row of potatoes, carrots, onions, and cabbage. She found great satisfaction in watching the vegetables grow and sharing the bounty with family and friends. Every year she would have endless 5–gallon buckets of carrots, potatoes, and onions which she carefully tallied and recorded in her diary to compare with past years. Lorraine was a member of the First Baptist Church of Hebron,where she was an active member all of her life until she moved to Hazen. She enjoyed going to the Ladies Camp retreat at Crystal Springs Baptist Camp and looked forward to attending the yearly Baptist Men’s Singfest. After she became a widow, she joined the Women’s Missionary Guild and enjoyed sewing flannel baby jackets and baby blankets that were sent to a missionary hospital in Africa, even up to the last several years of her life. She was preceded in death by her parents, both brothers, and her husband.
Red ID: FND_I_78870 Image ID: 518521 Image Notes: FND001 271379

Collection: FND001 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Date: -

Summary: The North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program is sponsored by the North Dakota Funeral Directors Association. The life stories of deceased North Dakotans are featured in an archvied collection. Current partners in the project are Eastgate Funeral & Cremation Services, Bismarck Evans Funeral Homes, Carrington and New Rockford Everson-Coughlin Funeral Home, Williston Fulkerson Funeral Home, Tioga Fulkerson Funeral Home, Watford City Fulkerson Stevenson Funeral Home, Williston Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck Springan Stevenson Funeral Home, Stanley Stevenson Funeral Home, Dickinson These funeral homes provide recent obituaries to the Foundation, where staff and volunteers format, edit and archive each memorial. The memorials are posted, and copies are sent to the family for their input and approval. The listing currently features more than 13,000 memorials, and is constantly updated as new memorials and histories are received.

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