A homemaker, she was a member of Schubert Mennonite Church, Bethel, where she sang in the Jubilares women's quartet.
She enjoyed sewing for relief agencies, crocheting for fund-raisers, playing piano and cooking.
Born in Rapho Township, she was the daughter of the late Walter D. and Ada B. Longenecker Keener.
She was married to Mervin R. Miller of the Mennonite Home.
Surviving besides her husband are a daughter, Janice, married to the Rev. Thomas A. Hess, with whom she lived; four grandsons; eight great-grandchildren; three sisters, Virgie L. Keener and Barbara, married to Harold Reed, both of Lancaster, and Helen, married to James R. Hess of Myerstown; and four brothers, Walter Keener Jr. of Lancaster, John and Harold Keener, both of Mount Joy, and A. Lincoln Keener of Elizabethtown.
She was preceded in death by two brothers, Edwin and Samuel Keener.
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL (LANCASTER, PA.)
Publication Date: May 17, 2003
Mary and Mervin were 3rd Cousins and also 6C1R.
A homemaker, she was a member of Schubert Mennonite Church, Bethel, where she sang in the Jubilares women's quartet.
She enjoyed sewing for relief agencies, crocheting for fund-raisers, playing piano and cooking.
Born in Rapho Township, she was the daughter of the late Walter D. and Ada B. Longenecker Keener.
She was married to Mervin R. Miller of the Mennonite Home.
Surviving besides her husband are a daughter, Janice, married to the Rev. Thomas A. Hess, with whom she lived; four grandsons; eight great-grandchildren; three sisters, Virgie L. Keener and Barbara, married to Harold Reed, both of Lancaster, and Helen, married to James R. Hess of Myerstown; and four brothers, Walter Keener Jr. of Lancaster, John and Harold Keener, both of Mount Joy, and A. Lincoln Keener of Elizabethtown.
She was preceded in death by two brothers, Edwin and Samuel Keener.
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL (LANCASTER, PA.)
Publication Date: May 17, 2003
Mary and Mervin were 3rd Cousins and also 6C1R.
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