Louella Hughes Miller, Dec 3, 2008
12-27-2008Camden
LOUELLA HUGHES MILLER, 99, of Camden, widow of United Methodist pastor Marion W. Miller, died Dec. 3, 2008, at Oak Ridge Nursing Home in El Dorado.
She was born in Camden on Sept. 27, 1909, to James Carr and Della Lee Carter Hughes. She was a 1935 graduate of the University of Tennessee School of Nursing.
She served in the U.S. Army Nurses Corps from 1944 to 1964, including more than five years in Japan, Guam and Germany. During her tenure of service she received the World War II Victory Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Occupation Medal (Japan), Korean Service Medal, United Nations Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, and Army Commendation Medal.
She also has the distinction of being the first graduate of Fairview High School in 1927. She was a devoted member of Fairview UMC, Camden.
She and Rev. Miller were married in 1967. He preceded her in death in 1995.
She was preceded in death by her parents; four sisters, Lacie Velma Hughes, Flora Ann Hughes, Edith May Wells and Phonie Jean Williams; and two brothers, John Floyd Hughes Sr. and Norlis Cole Hughes. She is survived by two sisters, Dorothy Lee White of Benton and Della Maude Tomlinson of Camden; a step-daughter, Marion Barnes; and step-grandchildren Ted Barnes and Carla Fish.
Funeral services were held Dec. 6 at Fairview UMC, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery.
