By J.E. Geshwiler
For the AJC
In mid-life Carol Miller found her true calling. An office worker up to that point, she turned her interest in early American history and her communication skills into work as a museum docent.
A West Coast resident at the time, she enlightened visitors to the Santa Monica History Museum and the Leonis Adobe Museum outside Los Angeles about the way early Californians lived.
When Guy Miller, her husband of 20 years, died in 1988, she thought about moving to Atlanta, where her daughter, Parlee Chambers, lived. First, though, she wanted to make certain there was a museum here that would appreciate her services.
There turned out to be two of them, and they certainly did come to value her.
One was the Tullie Farm at the Atlanta History Center, where she started as a volunteer and became a part-time staffer.
"Carol was my rock. I depended on her for so much," said Chris Brooks of Clarksville, former administrator of the farm and now director of the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia.
Brooks said Miller became a student of life in early Georgia and gave interesting and factual talks to the farm's visitors. "They seemed enthralled, thanks to Carol's storytelling ability, and I wanted all new docents to watch her at work and follow her example," he said.
She demonstrated pioneer skills as well, including spinning freshly shorn wool, weaving rugs and cooking on a hearth.
Miller also dedicated herself to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. Its vice president for institutional advancement, Leslie Rutkowski, said Miller became a volunteer just after the museum opened in 1992, serving nearly 2,500 hours over a 20-year period.
"Carol was just so friendly and gracious and shared these wonderful attributes with our visitors," Rutkowski said. "Beyond this, she had an amazing smile, which was so reflective of who she was in life."
Carol Rosalie Miller, 88, of Atlanta died Feb. 10 at Hospice Atlanta. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at All Saints' Episcopal Church. SouthCare Cremation and Funeral Society is in charge of arrangements.
Born and reared in Nebraska, she moved to California with her first husband, William Teague. They were divorced in 1964, and she married Miller, a professor of political science at Los Angeles Pierce College, several years later.
For at least 15 years Carol Miller also was a Hospice Atlanta volunteer who counseled relatives of the patients. Sharon "Scottie" Scott of Stone Mountain, the hospice's former bereavement coordinator, said Miller showed exceptional kindness in dealing with grieving families.
"Carol had experienced losses in her own life and was sensitive to the feelings of the bereaved," Scott said.
Miller was a favorite of children in her Emory University neighborhood at Halloween time. She would dress as a witch and hand out candy from a sinister-looking iron pot.
Her daughter said Miller had a houseful of what she called "domestic-use collectibles" — such as a player piano, farm tools, quilts (some she had bought and others she had made), embroidered linens and old toys.
"And Mom kept an old nonworking iron pump by her kitchen sink because it reminded her of her home in Nebraska long ago," her daughter said.
Also surviving are two sons, Norman Teague of Newhall, Calif., and Bob Teague of Valencia, Calif.; a stepdaughter, Kerry Scott of Canoga Park, Calif.; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
For the AJC
In mid-life Carol Miller found her true calling. An office worker up to that point, she turned her interest in early American history and her communication skills into work as a museum docent.
A West Coast resident at the time, she enlightened visitors to the Santa Monica History Museum and the Leonis Adobe Museum outside Los Angeles about the way early Californians lived.
When Guy Miller, her husband of 20 years, died in 1988, she thought about moving to Atlanta, where her daughter, Parlee Chambers, lived. First, though, she wanted to make certain there was a museum here that would appreciate her services.
There turned out to be two of them, and they certainly did come to value her.
One was the Tullie Farm at the Atlanta History Center, where she started as a volunteer and became a part-time staffer.
"Carol was my rock. I depended on her for so much," said Chris Brooks of Clarksville, former administrator of the farm and now director of the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia.
Brooks said Miller became a student of life in early Georgia and gave interesting and factual talks to the farm's visitors. "They seemed enthralled, thanks to Carol's storytelling ability, and I wanted all new docents to watch her at work and follow her example," he said.
She demonstrated pioneer skills as well, including spinning freshly shorn wool, weaving rugs and cooking on a hearth.
Miller also dedicated herself to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. Its vice president for institutional advancement, Leslie Rutkowski, said Miller became a volunteer just after the museum opened in 1992, serving nearly 2,500 hours over a 20-year period.
"Carol was just so friendly and gracious and shared these wonderful attributes with our visitors," Rutkowski said. "Beyond this, she had an amazing smile, which was so reflective of who she was in life."
Carol Rosalie Miller, 88, of Atlanta died Feb. 10 at Hospice Atlanta. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at All Saints' Episcopal Church. SouthCare Cremation and Funeral Society is in charge of arrangements.
Born and reared in Nebraska, she moved to California with her first husband, William Teague. They were divorced in 1964, and she married Miller, a professor of political science at Los Angeles Pierce College, several years later.
For at least 15 years Carol Miller also was a Hospice Atlanta volunteer who counseled relatives of the patients. Sharon "Scottie" Scott of Stone Mountain, the hospice's former bereavement coordinator, said Miller showed exceptional kindness in dealing with grieving families.
"Carol had experienced losses in her own life and was sensitive to the feelings of the bereaved," Scott said.
Miller was a favorite of children in her Emory University neighborhood at Halloween time. She would dress as a witch and hand out candy from a sinister-looking iron pot.
Her daughter said Miller had a houseful of what she called "domestic-use collectibles" — such as a player piano, farm tools, quilts (some she had bought and others she had made), embroidered linens and old toys.
"And Mom kept an old nonworking iron pump by her kitchen sink because it reminded her of her home in Nebraska long ago," her daughter said.
Also surviving are two sons, Norman Teague of Newhall, Calif., and Bob Teague of Valencia, Calif.; a stepdaughter, Kerry Scott of Canoga Park, Calif.; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
By J.E. Geshwiler
For the AJC
In mid-life Carol Miller found her true calling. An office worker up to that point, she turned her interest in early American history and her communication skills into work as a museum docent.
A West Coast resident at the time, she enlightened visitors to the Santa Monica History Museum and the Leonis Adobe Museum outside Los Angeles about the way early Californians lived.
When Guy Miller, her husband of 20 years, died in 1988, she thought about moving to Atlanta, where her daughter, Parlee Chambers, lived. First, though, she wanted to make certain there was a museum here that would appreciate her services.
There turned out to be two of them, and they certainly did come to value her.
One was the Tullie Farm at the Atlanta History Center, where she started as a volunteer and became a part-time staffer.
"Carol was my rock. I depended on her for so much," said Chris Brooks of Clarksville, former administrator of the farm and now director of the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia.
Brooks said Miller became a student of life in early Georgia and gave interesting and factual talks to the farm's visitors. "They seemed enthralled, thanks to Carol's storytelling ability, and I wanted all new docents to watch her at work and follow her example," he said.
She demonstrated pioneer skills as well, including spinning freshly shorn wool, weaving rugs and cooking on a hearth.
Miller also dedicated herself to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. Its vice president for institutional advancement, Leslie Rutkowski, said Miller became a volunteer just after the museum opened in 1992, serving nearly 2,500 hours over a 20-year period.
"Carol was just so friendly and gracious and shared these wonderful attributes with our visitors," Rutkowski said. "Beyond this, she had an amazing smile, which was so reflective of who she was in life."
Carol Rosalie Miller, 88, of Atlanta died Feb. 10 at Hospice Atlanta. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at All Saints' Episcopal Church. SouthCare Cremation and Funeral Society is in charge of arrangements.
Born and reared in Nebraska, she moved to California with her first husband, William Teague. They were divorced in 1964, and she married Miller, a professor of political science at Los Angeles Pierce College, several years later.
For at least 15 years Carol Miller also was a Hospice Atlanta volunteer who counseled relatives of the patients. Sharon "Scottie" Scott of Stone Mountain, the hospice's former bereavement coordinator, said Miller showed exceptional kindness in dealing with grieving families.
"Carol had experienced losses in her own life and was sensitive to the feelings of the bereaved," Scott said.
Miller was a favorite of children in her Emory University neighborhood at Halloween time. She would dress as a witch and hand out candy from a sinister-looking iron pot.
Her daughter said Miller had a houseful of what she called "domestic-use collectibles" — such as a player piano, farm tools, quilts (some she had bought and others she had made), embroidered linens and old toys.
"And Mom kept an old nonworking iron pump by her kitchen sink because it reminded her of her home in Nebraska long ago," her daughter said.
Also surviving are two sons, Norman Teague of Newhall, Calif., and Bob Teague of Valencia, Calif.; a stepdaughter, Kerry Scott of Canoga Park, Calif.; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
For the AJC
In mid-life Carol Miller found her true calling. An office worker up to that point, she turned her interest in early American history and her communication skills into work as a museum docent.
A West Coast resident at the time, she enlightened visitors to the Santa Monica History Museum and the Leonis Adobe Museum outside Los Angeles about the way early Californians lived.
When Guy Miller, her husband of 20 years, died in 1988, she thought about moving to Atlanta, where her daughter, Parlee Chambers, lived. First, though, she wanted to make certain there was a museum here that would appreciate her services.
There turned out to be two of them, and they certainly did come to value her.
One was the Tullie Farm at the Atlanta History Center, where she started as a volunteer and became a part-time staffer.
"Carol was my rock. I depended on her for so much," said Chris Brooks of Clarksville, former administrator of the farm and now director of the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia.
Brooks said Miller became a student of life in early Georgia and gave interesting and factual talks to the farm's visitors. "They seemed enthralled, thanks to Carol's storytelling ability, and I wanted all new docents to watch her at work and follow her example," he said.
She demonstrated pioneer skills as well, including spinning freshly shorn wool, weaving rugs and cooking on a hearth.
Miller also dedicated herself to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. Its vice president for institutional advancement, Leslie Rutkowski, said Miller became a volunteer just after the museum opened in 1992, serving nearly 2,500 hours over a 20-year period.
"Carol was just so friendly and gracious and shared these wonderful attributes with our visitors," Rutkowski said. "Beyond this, she had an amazing smile, which was so reflective of who she was in life."
Carol Rosalie Miller, 88, of Atlanta died Feb. 10 at Hospice Atlanta. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at All Saints' Episcopal Church. SouthCare Cremation and Funeral Society is in charge of arrangements.
Born and reared in Nebraska, she moved to California with her first husband, William Teague. They were divorced in 1964, and she married Miller, a professor of political science at Los Angeles Pierce College, several years later.
For at least 15 years Carol Miller also was a Hospice Atlanta volunteer who counseled relatives of the patients. Sharon "Scottie" Scott of Stone Mountain, the hospice's former bereavement coordinator, said Miller showed exceptional kindness in dealing with grieving families.
"Carol had experienced losses in her own life and was sensitive to the feelings of the bereaved," Scott said.
Miller was a favorite of children in her Emory University neighborhood at Halloween time. She would dress as a witch and hand out candy from a sinister-looking iron pot.
Her daughter said Miller had a houseful of what she called "domestic-use collectibles" — such as a player piano, farm tools, quilts (some she had bought and others she had made), embroidered linens and old toys.
"And Mom kept an old nonworking iron pump by her kitchen sink because it reminded her of her home in Nebraska long ago," her daughter said.
Also surviving are two sons, Norman Teague of Newhall, Calif., and Bob Teague of Valencia, Calif.; a stepdaughter, Kerry Scott of Canoga Park, Calif.; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
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