Ruth Miller, 92, Fairview, MT

Funeral services were Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, at 11 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, Sidney, MT, with Pastor John Baseley officiating. A luncheon will follow the service for a time of fellowship and sharing. After the luncheon, Ruth will be laid to rest in the Fairview Cemetery, Fairview, ND. Visitation was Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Fulkerson Stevenson Memorial Chapel, Sidney, MT. Fulkerson Stevenson Funeral Home, Sidney, MT, is assisting the family. Remembrances, condolences, and pictures may be shared with the family at http://www.fulkersons.com.

Ruth Naoma (Danielson) Miller, 92, Sidney, MT, passed away from natural causes on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, at the Sidney Health Center, Sidney, MT.

Ruth was born at the Berry Maternity home on Oct. 22, 1932, Fairview, MT, to Axel Valdemar and Hilda Catherine (Beisner) Danielson. She was baptized Nov. 6, 1932, and confirmed April 14, 1946, into the Lutheran faith at St. John Lutheran Church, Fairview.

Ruth attended grade school at the Dean and Central Schools and graduated from Fairview High School on May 24, 1950. On June 4, 1950, she was united in marriage to Alfred John Miller at St. John Lutheran Church. They began farming northeast of Dore, ND, on the Miller farm, and on Dec. 13, 1952, they moved to their farm south of Fairview, and Ruth has lived there since. On Jan. 18, 1955, their home was blessed with twins by adoption. Steven Micheal and Linda Susan.

Ruth's life was spent as a busy farm wife. Her husband Alfred, and her children, and later grandchildren kept her occupied as did her love of gardening. People locally and from a distance enjoyed the produce she and her family grew in their truck garden. She worked at the Fairview Bakery in the early 1950s; and at the Migrant School in Fairview in the 1970s. Always a willing farm hand, she worked side by side with her husband, Alfred, driving tractor, irrigating, raising feeder cattle and driving truck during beet harvest and later for her brother Dale and his sons.

Alfred and Ruth joined the Good Sam Club in 1977, enjoying many weekend campouts with friends in North Dakota, Montana, and Canada. In 1978, they began spending winter months in Yuma, AZ. Alfred passed away in 1992 while they were in Arizona, a great loss she never completely got over. She continued to spend her winter months in Yuma with friends, and summer months in Fairview with family. She felt that she had the best of two worlds.

Ruth was a lifelong member of St. John Lutheran Church where she belonged to the L.W.M.L. which kept her busy during the summer months. She was a winter member of Christ Lutheran Church, Yuma, where she joined a group of church women there. They spent two days a week quilting beautiful quilts for people living in poverty-stricken countries.

She continued her hobbies, which were writing and receiving letters with friends and family, especially with her cousins in Sweden. She read constantly, crocheted, Tole painted, and raised African violets, which were all beautiful objects of art and life. But her favorite was spending time with friends or family, especially her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Ruth is survived by her daughter Linda (Doug); her three grandchildren Marnie, Nicole and Laina; and last but not least her three great grandchildren: Makenzie, Jordan and Nyx. She is also survived by her brother Dale and his wife Diane; and by numerous in-laws, nieces and nephews whom she loved very much. Ruth knew every one of their birthdays since she also compiled family histories for both the Millers and the Danielsons.