WHEATLAND - A celebration of the life of Jeanne Whitney Miller, 79, will be conducted at 10 a.m. today, April 22, 2006, at All Saints' Episcopal Church with the Rev. Lori Modesitt officiating.
She died April 19, 2006, at Platte County Memorial Hospital.
She was born April 16, 1927, the youngest daughter of Albany County ranchers Thomas F. and Gertrude S. (Noxon) Carroll. She grew up on the Carroll Ranch northwest of Laramie and attended Laramie High until her senior year. In 1943, she graduated from Mount St. Gertrude's Academy for Girls in Boulder, Colo.
She attended the University of Wyoming, was a member of the UW rodeo team and was the first woman to be both University of Wyoming Rodeo Queen and Laramie Jubilee Days Queen.
She married William "Bill" Whitney on Aug. 16, 1948. They raised cattle and Quarter Horses and their four children on their ranch in the Little Laramie Valley, northwest of Laramie.
After her husband's death, she continued to operate the ranch and also worked at the UW Bookstore and served as Farmhouse Fraternity housemother.
On Nov. 26, 1976, she married Howard E. "Mick" Miller in Wheatland and they made their home on the Miller Ranch in Sybille Canyon.
She was a member of the Wyoming Quarter Horse Association, Wyoming and Albany County Cowbelles, Daughters of the Nile and All Saints' Episcopal Women's Guild.
Survivors include her four children, Jill Zimmerscheid and Sam Whitney and his wife Jacquie, all of Wheatland; Mike Whitney and his wife, Joni of Laramie and Jay Whitney of Manhattan, Kan.; three granddaughters Leslie, Zimmerschied, Amy Whitney, and Piper Whitney: and four grandsons; Londo Whitney, B.Joe Whitney, Cody Whitney, and Miles Whitney: two great-grandchildren; Crosby Whitney and Whitney Brooks: two sisters, Mary Giffin of Goleta, Calif., and Peggy Miller of Davenport, Iowa, and two brothers, Frank Carroll of Riverside and Mike Carroll of Laramie.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her two husbands, an infant grandson, two sisters, one in infancy and Tess Greaser and a brother, Howard Carroll.
Memorials to All Saints' Episcopal Church, 605 11th St., Wheatland, 82201; Shriner's Hospital for Children, Virginia St., at Fairfax, Salt Lake City, Utah 84103 or a charity of the donor's choice, would be appreciated by the family.
She died April 19, 2006, at Platte County Memorial Hospital.
She was born April 16, 1927, the youngest daughter of Albany County ranchers Thomas F. and Gertrude S. (Noxon) Carroll. She grew up on the Carroll Ranch northwest of Laramie and attended Laramie High until her senior year. In 1943, she graduated from Mount St. Gertrude's Academy for Girls in Boulder, Colo.
She attended the University of Wyoming, was a member of the UW rodeo team and was the first woman to be both University of Wyoming Rodeo Queen and Laramie Jubilee Days Queen.
She married William "Bill" Whitney on Aug. 16, 1948. They raised cattle and Quarter Horses and their four children on their ranch in the Little Laramie Valley, northwest of Laramie.
After her husband's death, she continued to operate the ranch and also worked at the UW Bookstore and served as Farmhouse Fraternity housemother.
On Nov. 26, 1976, she married Howard E. "Mick" Miller in Wheatland and they made their home on the Miller Ranch in Sybille Canyon.
She was a member of the Wyoming Quarter Horse Association, Wyoming and Albany County Cowbelles, Daughters of the Nile and All Saints' Episcopal Women's Guild.
Survivors include her four children, Jill Zimmerscheid and Sam Whitney and his wife Jacquie, all of Wheatland; Mike Whitney and his wife, Joni of Laramie and Jay Whitney of Manhattan, Kan.; three granddaughters Leslie, Zimmerschied, Amy Whitney, and Piper Whitney: and four grandsons; Londo Whitney, B.Joe Whitney, Cody Whitney, and Miles Whitney: two great-grandchildren; Crosby Whitney and Whitney Brooks: two sisters, Mary Giffin of Goleta, Calif., and Peggy Miller of Davenport, Iowa, and two brothers, Frank Carroll of Riverside and Mike Carroll of Laramie.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her two husbands, an infant grandson, two sisters, one in infancy and Tess Greaser and a brother, Howard Carroll.
Memorials to All Saints' Episcopal Church, 605 11th St., Wheatland, 82201; Shriner's Hospital for Children, Virginia St., at Fairfax, Salt Lake City, Utah 84103 or a charity of the donor's choice, would be appreciated by the family.
WHEATLAND - A celebration of the life of Jeanne Whitney Miller, 79, will be conducted at 10 a.m. today, April 22, 2006, at All Saints' Episcopal Church with the Rev. Lori Modesitt officiating.
She died April 19, 2006, at Platte County Memorial Hospital.
She was born April 16, 1927, the youngest daughter of Albany County ranchers Thomas F. and Gertrude S. (Noxon) Carroll. She grew up on the Carroll Ranch northwest of Laramie and attended Laramie High until her senior year. In 1943, she graduated from Mount St. Gertrude's Academy for Girls in Boulder, Colo.
She attended the University of Wyoming, was a member of the UW rodeo team and was the first woman to be both University of Wyoming Rodeo Queen and Laramie Jubilee Days Queen.
She married William "Bill" Whitney on Aug. 16, 1948. They raised cattle and Quarter Horses and their four children on their ranch in the Little Laramie Valley, northwest of Laramie.
After her husband's death, she continued to operate the ranch and also worked at the UW Bookstore and served as Farmhouse Fraternity housemother.
On Nov. 26, 1976, she married Howard E. "Mick" Miller in Wheatland and they made their home on the Miller Ranch in Sybille Canyon.
She was a member of the Wyoming Quarter Horse Association, Wyoming and Albany County Cowbelles, Daughters of the Nile and All Saints' Episcopal Women's Guild.
Survivors include her four children, Jill Zimmerscheid and Sam Whitney and his wife Jacquie, all of Wheatland; Mike Whitney and his wife, Joni of Laramie and Jay Whitney of Manhattan, Kan.; three granddaughters Leslie, Zimmerschied, Amy Whitney, and Piper Whitney: and four grandsons; Londo Whitney, B.Joe Whitney, Cody Whitney, and Miles Whitney: two great-grandchildren; Crosby Whitney and Whitney Brooks: two sisters, Mary Giffin of Goleta, Calif., and Peggy Miller of Davenport, Iowa, and two brothers, Frank Carroll of Riverside and Mike Carroll of Laramie.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her two husbands, an infant grandson, two sisters, one in infancy and Tess Greaser and a brother, Howard Carroll.
Memorials to All Saints' Episcopal Church, 605 11th St., Wheatland, 82201; Shriner's Hospital for Children, Virginia St., at Fairfax, Salt Lake City, Utah 84103 or a charity of the donor's choice, would be appreciated by the family.
She died April 19, 2006, at Platte County Memorial Hospital.
She was born April 16, 1927, the youngest daughter of Albany County ranchers Thomas F. and Gertrude S. (Noxon) Carroll. She grew up on the Carroll Ranch northwest of Laramie and attended Laramie High until her senior year. In 1943, she graduated from Mount St. Gertrude's Academy for Girls in Boulder, Colo.
She attended the University of Wyoming, was a member of the UW rodeo team and was the first woman to be both University of Wyoming Rodeo Queen and Laramie Jubilee Days Queen.
She married William "Bill" Whitney on Aug. 16, 1948. They raised cattle and Quarter Horses and their four children on their ranch in the Little Laramie Valley, northwest of Laramie.
After her husband's death, she continued to operate the ranch and also worked at the UW Bookstore and served as Farmhouse Fraternity housemother.
On Nov. 26, 1976, she married Howard E. "Mick" Miller in Wheatland and they made their home on the Miller Ranch in Sybille Canyon.
She was a member of the Wyoming Quarter Horse Association, Wyoming and Albany County Cowbelles, Daughters of the Nile and All Saints' Episcopal Women's Guild.
Survivors include her four children, Jill Zimmerscheid and Sam Whitney and his wife Jacquie, all of Wheatland; Mike Whitney and his wife, Joni of Laramie and Jay Whitney of Manhattan, Kan.; three granddaughters Leslie, Zimmerschied, Amy Whitney, and Piper Whitney: and four grandsons; Londo Whitney, B.Joe Whitney, Cody Whitney, and Miles Whitney: two great-grandchildren; Crosby Whitney and Whitney Brooks: two sisters, Mary Giffin of Goleta, Calif., and Peggy Miller of Davenport, Iowa, and two brothers, Frank Carroll of Riverside and Mike Carroll of Laramie.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her two husbands, an infant grandson, two sisters, one in infancy and Tess Greaser and a brother, Howard Carroll.
Memorials to All Saints' Episcopal Church, 605 11th St., Wheatland, 82201; Shriner's Hospital for Children, Virginia St., at Fairfax, Salt Lake City, Utah 84103 or a charity of the donor's choice, would be appreciated by the family.
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Gertrude Jeanne Carroll Whitney Miller 1927-2006
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