Miller, Thelma Marie

Birth Name Miller, Thelma Marie
Gramps ID I6693
Gender female
Age at Death 83 years, 1 month, 17 days

Events

Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Birth 1916-08-01 Eagle Butte, Chouteau Cty, Montana, USA  
1a 2a
Census 1920 School District 2, Chouteau Cty, Montana, USA  
3a
Census 1930 Eagle Butte, Chouteau Cty, Montana, USA  
4a
Census 1940 Crow Coulee, Chouteau Cty, Montana, USA  
5a
Death 1999-09-18 Big Sandy, Chouteau Cty, Montana, USA  
1a
Burial   Big Sandy Cemetery, Big Sandy, Chouteau Cty, Montana, USA  
 

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Miller, Felix Oscar [I6690]1891-08-221954-04-13
Mother Weible, Edna Mae [I6643]1892-03-191971-04-03
    Brother     Miller, Richard Oscar [I6691] 1911-09-19 1965-06-03
    Sister     Miller, Helen May [I6692]
         Miller, Thelma Marie [I6693] 1916-08-01 1999-09-18

Families

    Family of Williams, Harry Eugene and Miller, Thelma Marie [F2180]
Married Husband Williams, Harry Eugene [I6699] ( * 1906-12-01 + 1979-01-27 )
   
Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Marriage 1934-08-07 Great Falls, Cascade Cty, Montana, USA  
6a
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Williams, Raymond Oscar [I6700]
Williams, Roger E. [I6701]
Williams, Robert [I6702]
Williams, Randy [I6703]

Narrative

[Obituary for Thelma Williams, from the Havre Daily News, 20 Sep 1999; posted online to the FindaGrave.com website.]

BIG SANDY - Thelma (Miller) Williams, 83, died Saturday, Sept. 18, 1999, at a Big Sandy hospital from complications of Alzheimers Disease.

Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Christ Lutheran Church in Big Sandy with the Rev. Rich Jespersen officiating. Burial will follow in the Big Sandy Cemetery.

Williams was born Aug. 1, 1916, on the family homestead in the Eagle Butte community south of the Missouri River, to Felix Oscar Miller and Edna May Weible. She received her education at the Eagle Butte Country School and Geraldine High School.

In the mid 1930s she married Harry E. Williams at Great Falls. The coupled lived in the Eagle Butte community until 1946, when they bought the Claire Hawkins place 32 miles southeast of Big Sandy. The couple lived and worked the farm. He died in 1979. She remained on the farm active in operations until her health began to fail in 1997. She entered the Big Sandy Nursing Home in January of 1998.

She enjoyed farming, working in her yard, and flower and vegetable gardens. She also enjoyed snowmobile and three-wheeler riding.

Williams was preceded in death by her husband, parents, and a brother, Richard Miller.

Survivors include sons, Roger, Robert, and Randy Williams of Big Sandy and Raymond Williams of Coram; a sister, Helen Trunk of Eagle Butte near Loma; 10 grandchildren; and several nephews and nieces.

Pedigree

  1. Miller, Felix Oscar [I6690]
    1. Weible, Edna Mae [I6643]
      1. Miller, Helen May [I6692]
      2. Miller, Richard Oscar [I6691]
      3. Miller, Thelma Marie
        1. Williams, Harry Eugene [I6699]
          1. Williams, Roger E. [I6701]
          2. Williams, Raymond Oscar [I6700]
          3. Williams, Robert [I6702]
          4. Williams, Randy [I6703]

Ancestors

Source References

  1. Havre Daily News (Montana) [S0377]
      • Date: 1999-09-20
      • Confidence: High
  2. Montana, Chouteau County Records, 1876-2011 [S0375]
      • Confidence: High
      • Citation:

        "Montana, Chouteau County Records,1876-2011," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q296-QPHV : 6 April 2016), Thelma Marie Miller, 01 Aug 1916; citing Birth, Chouteau, Montana, United States, Certificate 120, various offices Chouteau County Courthouse and Museum of the Northern Plains River and Plains Society, Fort Benton.

  3. US Census of 1920 [S0041]
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M83V-TVF : accessed 12 June 2017), Felix O Miller, School District 2, Chouteau, Montana, United States; citing ED 65, sheet 1B, line 84, family 21, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 969; FHL microfilm 1,820,969.

        Event Date 1920
        Event Place School District 2, Chouteau, Montana, United States
        Felix O Miller Head M 28 Germany
        Edna M Miller Wife F 27 Missouri
        Richard Miller Son M 8 Ohio
        Helena Miller Daughter F 7 Ohio
        Thelma Miller Daughter F 3 Montana

  4. US Census of 1930 [S0042]
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCMJ-GGL : accessed 12 June 2017), Oscar F Miller, Eagle Butte, Chouteau, Montana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 18, sheet 1A, line 3, family 3, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1254; FHL microfilm 2,340,989.

        Event Date 1930
        Event Place Eagle Butte, Chouteau, Montana, United States
        Oscar F Miller Head M 38 Germany
        Edna M Miller Wife F 37 Missouri
        Richard Orah Miller Son M 18 Ohio
        Helen Miller Daughter F 17 Ohio
        Thelma Miller Daughter F 13 Montana

  5. US Census of 1940 [S0043]
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VB3Y-8ZH : accessed 13 June 2017), Harry E Williams, School District 82 Crow Coulee, Chouteau, Montana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 8-66, sheet 1B, line 42, family 12, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2216.

        Event Date 1940
        Event Place School District 82 Crow Coulee, Chouteau, Montana, United States
        Harry E Williams Head M 34 Illinois
        Thelma W Williams Wife F 23 Montana
        Roger E Williams Son M 5 Montana
        Raymond O Williams Son M 2 Montana

  6. Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950 [S0169]
      • Confidence: High
      • Citation:

        "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F3WL-2Y9 : 7 December 2014), Harry Eugene Williams and Thelma Marie Miller, 07 Aug 1934; citing Marriage, Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, county courthouses, Montana; FHL microfilm 1,940,171.