Linda Stone Miller

Logan?Our beloved sister, aunt, wife and mother, Linda Stone Miller, died March 16, 2007, after a valiant battle with cancer. She was surrounded by her family. Linda was born March 14, 1941, and was the third child of Earl and Lois Stone. Linda grew up in North Logan and graduated from North Cache High School with her dear friends Luann Quayle and Katie Jones. After High School, Linda left for the University of Pacific in Stockton California. While there she was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. While home for school break her junior year, Linda met the love of her life, Robert Miller. She moved back to Logan and she and Bob were married on December 18, 1961. After Bob graduated from USU, they moved to San Diego to prepare the future and plan their family. After Bob?s dad died in a tragic car accident, they moved back to Logan and Linda was 8 months pregnant. Over the next few years, Bob and Linda had 4 boys. Linda was very involved in every aspect of the boys? lives. She was a Cub Scout and Webelo Scout leader. All four of her boys got their Eagle Scouts. Linda was also a neighborhood mother hosting many sleepovers and yard and pool parties. She was active in the PTA. She was constantly running her boys to soccer, skiing, drama, art, basketball, tennis, etc. She still found time to be an active member of her community. She was a volunteer and a Board member in the early days of the CAPSA house and was instrumental in starting up the Sombody?s Attic thrift story. She also served on the Boards for the Alliance for Varied Arts, USU Women?s Center Chairwoman, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Chairwoman of the Friends Committee and Chairwoman and President of the Children?s Justice Center of Logan. She taught her boys about the joy of charity and giving by sponsoring a sub for Santa family ever year and constantly donating clothes, coats, shoes, glasses and food to the local food pantry. She printed an annual Chili Cook-off cookbook as a fundraiser for years and also organized neighborhood and family cookbooks and was even featured in a full-page cooking segment in the Salt Lake Tribune. She was recognized by Governor Norm Bangerter as one of the top twenty Utah Volunteers in 1990 and also received the J.C. Penney Golden Rule Award in 2000 for her volunteer work. As Linda?s boys were getting older, she decided to go back to school. While in school, Linda was involved with the women?s center at USU, in peer counseling and the re-entry program. In school, she was a member of Psi Chi Honor Society, Gold Key National Honor Society, All American Scholar Collegiate Award, and the Mortar Board Honor Society. Linda graduated Magna Cum Laude. She started a career for the Division of child and Family Services of Logan. She helped out numerous high risk families throughout the valley where she would go into the homes and help teach the parents the skills that they need to have a healthy, functional family. She also worked for USU as a family consultant in a government-sponsored research project on community and family sponsorship. She presented a paper in Washington, D.C., regarding the differences between rural and urban low income families. Later, she was a charter member of CASA, court appointed special advocate for abused children. She would help assess the risk levels for children in homes where abuse is being suspected. This was very hard on Linda. In 1994, Linda was diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer. She and Bob moved to Salt Lake where Linda underwent a Bone Marrow Transplant. During this time, Linda decided that she would learn everything that she could about her disease and fight it with all of her will. After many treatments, Linda beat cancer for nearly 7 years. During that time, she became an advocate for breast cancer survivors and education in Utah. She helped form the Breast Cancer Awareness support group of Northern Utah. She served as secretary on the Utah Cancer Society and organized a breast cancer awareness day of speakers, workshops and support for the families of Cache Valley survivors. Linda was also the first to go to many people?s homes that are diagnosed with cancer to lend a hand of support and encouragement and help with any questions. Bob and the boys are constantly being stopped and told about the lives of cancer survivors and family members that Linda touched. In the last few years, Linda has published ?Love Letters from Earl and Lois? and ?Lilies in a White Field? for her family. Linda is survived by her husband and Love, Robert Miller; sons, Jeff JeNae, Pete Vicki, Josh Liz, Mike Shylo; sisters Sue Dave Batemen, Victoria Stephen Hammond; brothers Earl Junior and Herb; grandchildren, Jane, Emily, Chase, Taylee, Jack, and one on the way. She will be deeply missed by her family and friends. The family wishes to thank her many doctors in Logan, Ogden, and at the Huntsman Cancer Center in Salt Lake, especially Dr. Sandra Buys, Janet Bloch, and the nurses in the infusion center. In lieu of flowers and in honor of Linda, go out and commit a random act of kindness. Help a neighbor or a stranger. Donate time or money to a charity. This is how Linda lived her life and she would find great joy in this. Funeral services will at 12:00 noon on Wednesday, March 21, 2007, at the Nelson Funeral Home, 162 East 400 North, Logan. Friends and family may call at the funeral home on Tuesday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and on Wednesday prior to services from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. Burial will be in the Logan City Cemetery. Online condolences may be extended at www.nelsonfuneralhome.com .