This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Miller, Thomas Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qg.2ADE/349 Message Board Post: The Deseret News, 01/15/03 Blanche Thomas Miller, 82, passed away on January 12, 2003 in Provo, Utah. She was born on September 18, 1920 in Lewiston, Utah to John Evans and Mahala Deseret Thomas. She graduated from Malad High School and attended college at Idaho State, the University of Denver, and Brigham Young University. While at BYU she met her future husband, Lowell Storrs Miller. They were married on December 1, 1945 in American Fork. After Lowell's death in 1955, Blanche returned from the Midwest to Utah where she raised her three children. For nearly 20 years she worked in the accounting office at Utah Technical College in Provo, watching it grow into the current Utah Valley State College. She was a member of the LDS church and served for many years in both ward and stake primary callings. She was primary president in the Park Ward and then primary president in the Utah Stake. She also served as a Young Women's teacher and on several Relief Society boards. Blanche was an active thespian in high school and retained a life long interest in drama and poetry. For several decades she had season tickets to the drama series at BYU. Blanche was preceded in death by her husband Lowell, and by her sister Ruth Thomas. Her three children survive her, Sheldon T. (Barbara) of Chillicothe, OH, Marianne of Provo, and L. Scott (Elizabeth) of American Fork; also her sister Gwen (Clive) Anderson of Downey, ID, and her sisters-in-law Mildred Miller of Parker, CO and Anna Lou Bledsoe of Diana, TX. She has eight grandchildren, Katherine (Steve) Baldwin, Ryan (Amber) Semerau, Emily (Julian) Acosta, Chad (Kathleen) Miller, Brandon Miller, James Miller, Kathrine Miller, and Samuel Miller. She has six great-grandchildren. She will be remembered with fondness by numerous nieces and nephews who have enjoyed her kindness and hospitality while they have lived in Provo. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 18, at the North Park First Ward Chapel on the corner of 800 North and 100 West in Provo. Friends may call at Berg Mortuary, 185 E. Center Street, Provo from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, January 17 and on Saturday at the North Park First Ward Chapel from 9:30 a.m. until the time of service. Donations in her memory may be made to the Perpetual Education Fund, 50 E. North Temple Street, 9th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84157. (Please reference her name at 350 W. 700 N., Provo, UT with donations.) Published in the Deseret News on 1/15/2003.