Family Talk

Irene Preston Miller

Posted on August 5th, 2007 by Larry.
Categories: Michael & Irene Miller.

This morning, at eight o’clock, my mother, Irene Preston Miller, passed on to the next world. I think we all agree that she was prepared and ready to leave. For the past several days she had not been responsive and she had been declining in health over the past months.

She was not a woman to be confined to a wheel chair. She had always been an independent (liberated) woman before it was fashionable and had always been active in her community, in the arts, an in various forms of service.

Philip is preparing a memorial statement that I will publish when it is available. But, I thought the following additional photos might be of interest and a memory of her.

This photo was taken November or December 1941 at the Royalton Hotel.

This photo says “Finch sculpture class, 1st figure.” My mother was always practicing some form of arts or crafts, and I think it began with her training as a concert pianist, then sculpture, photography, etc.

This photo also says Royalton hotel, 1941.

This photo is of Diana and her mother and was taken at the Arthur Avedon studio in NY to send to Michael who was in India or Burma at the time during WWII.

Here is a recent photo of mom with Diana and Philip. She never belonged in that wheel chair. Now she is free.

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