Person:Florence Miller (23)

Florence May Miller of North Dakota was born in 1897. She married Reinhold Edward Miller of Wisconsin. Their wedding and celebration was in Livingston, Montana, where Reinhold was educated in the dairy business. Reinhold became president of the Turtle Lake Cooperative Creamery in Turtle Lake, Wisconsin, about three years after their marriage. They had three daughters: Joyce Mavis b. 1923, Lavilla Geraldine ("Jerry") b. 1925, and Lois Jean b. 1927. Florence died in 1927 or 1928 of a hemorrhage after surgery. Her parents were Andrew and Mary Miller, North Dakota farmers. She had two brothers, Clarence and Floyd. In 1914, at the age of 17, she was nearly killed by a tornado. Too far from the cellar to hide with her family there when the storm began, she ran to the barn, which collapsed around her. A beam that would have crushed her and taken her life fell instead on her horse, who died beside her as her father sawed through the rubble until she could be reached and pulled out.