Age 79 years, 3 months, 15 days. She was the daughter of John W. Carey and Nettie Beulah Felson Carey. On February 11, 1943, she married Pendleton Miller at the chapel of St. Barnabas in Seattle, Washington.
She was the founder of the Washington State Roadside Council in the early 1960s. The purpose of the council was to eliminate billboards which blocked nature. Her private garden at her home in the Highlands contained 2,500 plants, including many rare species and was featured in three books. She also founded the Rhododendron Species Foundation, was a member of several gardening groups and was a public speaker. She helped choose the plantings in Freeway Park, oversaw plantings along the Lake Washington Ship Canal, helped plant traffic islands throughout the city and worked to establish the Chinese garden in West Seattle. She also helped found the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture and with her husband, attorney Pendleton Miller, the namesake ornamental plant library in the center. After his death in 1988, she endowed a chair in her husband's name at the University of Washington Law School. She served on the executive board of the American Horticultural Society and was a past trustee and board member of the Pacific Science Center. She had severe hearing loss, but learned to read lips to compensate. Her father was the government agent for the Kalispell tribe and she attended school on the reservation. She studied art at the University of Washington. She died on Wednesday, March 14, 1994. Survivors included two sons and four grandchildren. Memorial services were held at St. Mark's Cathedral. Remembrances were suggested to the University of Washington Foundation, Elisabeth Carey Miller Library, Center for Urban Horticulture.
Sources: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Saturday, March 19, 1994 and The Seattle Times, Monday, March 21, 1994.
She was the founder of the Washington State Roadside Council in the early 1960s. The purpose of the council was to eliminate billboards which blocked nature. Her private garden at her home in the Highlands contained 2,500 plants, including many rare species and was featured in three books. She also founded the Rhododendron Species Foundation, was a member of several gardening groups and was a public speaker. She helped choose the plantings in Freeway Park, oversaw plantings along the Lake Washington Ship Canal, helped plant traffic islands throughout the city and worked to establish the Chinese garden in West Seattle. She also helped found the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture and with her husband, attorney Pendleton Miller, the namesake ornamental plant library in the center. After his death in 1988, she endowed a chair in her husband's name at the University of Washington Law School. She served on the executive board of the American Horticultural Society and was a past trustee and board member of the Pacific Science Center. She had severe hearing loss, but learned to read lips to compensate. Her father was the government agent for the Kalispell tribe and she attended school on the reservation. She studied art at the University of Washington. She died on Wednesday, March 14, 1994. Survivors included two sons and four grandchildren. Memorial services were held at St. Mark's Cathedral. Remembrances were suggested to the University of Washington Foundation, Elisabeth Carey Miller Library, Center for Urban Horticulture.
Sources: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Saturday, March 19, 1994 and The Seattle Times, Monday, March 21, 1994.
Age 79 years, 3 months, 15 days. She was the daughter of John W. Carey and Nettie Beulah Felson Carey. On February 11, 1943, she married Pendleton Miller at the chapel of St. Barnabas in Seattle, Washington.
She was the founder of the Washington State Roadside Council in the early 1960s. The purpose of the council was to eliminate billboards which blocked nature. Her private garden at her home in the Highlands contained 2,500 plants, including many rare species and was featured in three books. She also founded the Rhododendron Species Foundation, was a member of several gardening groups and was a public speaker. She helped choose the plantings in Freeway Park, oversaw plantings along the Lake Washington Ship Canal, helped plant traffic islands throughout the city and worked to establish the Chinese garden in West Seattle. She also helped found the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture and with her husband, attorney Pendleton Miller, the namesake ornamental plant library in the center. After his death in 1988, she endowed a chair in her husband's name at the University of Washington Law School. She served on the executive board of the American Horticultural Society and was a past trustee and board member of the Pacific Science Center. She had severe hearing loss, but learned to read lips to compensate. Her father was the government agent for the Kalispell tribe and she attended school on the reservation. She studied art at the University of Washington. She died on Wednesday, March 14, 1994. Survivors included two sons and four grandchildren. Memorial services were held at St. Mark's Cathedral. Remembrances were suggested to the University of Washington Foundation, Elisabeth Carey Miller Library, Center for Urban Horticulture.
Sources: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Saturday, March 19, 1994 and The Seattle Times, Monday, March 21, 1994.
She was the founder of the Washington State Roadside Council in the early 1960s. The purpose of the council was to eliminate billboards which blocked nature. Her private garden at her home in the Highlands contained 2,500 plants, including many rare species and was featured in three books. She also founded the Rhododendron Species Foundation, was a member of several gardening groups and was a public speaker. She helped choose the plantings in Freeway Park, oversaw plantings along the Lake Washington Ship Canal, helped plant traffic islands throughout the city and worked to establish the Chinese garden in West Seattle. She also helped found the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture and with her husband, attorney Pendleton Miller, the namesake ornamental plant library in the center. After his death in 1988, she endowed a chair in her husband's name at the University of Washington Law School. She served on the executive board of the American Horticultural Society and was a past trustee and board member of the Pacific Science Center. She had severe hearing loss, but learned to read lips to compensate. Her father was the government agent for the Kalispell tribe and she attended school on the reservation. She studied art at the University of Washington. She died on Wednesday, March 14, 1994. Survivors included two sons and four grandchildren. Memorial services were held at St. Mark's Cathedral. Remembrances were suggested to the University of Washington Foundation, Elisabeth Carey Miller Library, Center for Urban Horticulture.
Sources: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Saturday, March 19, 1994 and The Seattle Times, Monday, March 21, 1994.
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