MILLER, Mary

Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ April 12, 1946 DEATH COMES TO MRS. MARY MILLER ON TRAIN CARRYING HER BACK TO CHICAGO Mrs. Mary Miller, resident of Wickenburg for the past two years and of Morristown for a year prior to that, passed away at 6 o’clock last Saturday morning on a Santa Fe train which was taking her back to her former home in Chicago. Death came while the train was at Ashfork. Ill for several years, and in critical condition for the past month, Mrs. Miller was placed in a Pullman berth on the Ashfork train here last Friday evening. She was accompanied by her daughter, Mary Ann and Mrs. Ralph Thorpe, a Chicago friend who had come to Wickenburg earlier to help care for Mrs. Miller. A son, Leo, Wickenburg grammar school student, received work of his mother’s death early Saturday morning and left for the family home in Chicago. Mrs. Miller had been a patient in a Phoenix hospital but when physicians there despaired of aiding her she was brought back to the home in Wickenburg. Mr. and Mrs. William P. Reagan, neighbors, assisted in caring for her until she was placed on the train Friday evening. Five sons of Mrs. Miller, whose husband died five years ago, were all in service during the late war. James is still in the armed forces, stationed in Germany. Richard, in the Merchant Marine, had been notified of his mother’s critical condition and started for Wickenburg, but his boat was delayed by the recent tidal wave. Three other sons who were in the service, John, Bill and Bob, are not in Chicago, as are the three other sons, Fred and Phillip, twins. A married daughter, Betty, also lives in Chicago. The body was taken from the train Saturday morning at Ashfork and to the Gibbs Mortuary in Williams from where it was sent to Chicago for services and burial.