The Memorial Service for Violet Miller, age 92 of Lemmon will be held at 1:00pm Saturday, June 11, 2016 at the Prince of Peace Chapel of the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Lemmon. Deacon Curtis Smith will officiate with inurnment in Greenhill Cemetery at Lemmon.

VIOLET MAE ULRICH was born on December 12, 1923 on a farm near Bentley, ND to Adolph and Esther (Clark) Ulrich. At an early age, she moved with her family to the Coal Springs area near where Violet attended school. She began working at the City Café in Hettinger which is where she met Henry Miller. Violet and Henry were united in marriage in 1945. They moved to Keldron where he worked on a farm and then to Cascade, MT where Violet was a full time stay at home mom.

Her husband passed away while they were living in Cascade. Violet then returned to Lemmon where she worked in numerous café's for several years washing dishes.


In 2007, Violet moved to Hazen to be closer to her son, David and then in 2012 to Western Horizons Care Center in Hettinger. Violet passed away there on Monday, May 30.

She loved playing Bingo and spending a little time in the casinos. She loved to travel wherever anyone would take her.

Surviving family members include her two daughters and one son-in-law, Sharon Jones, Belfield, ND; Mary and Curtis Smith, Houston, TX; five sons and four daughters-in-law, James and Patsy Miller, Shadehill, SD; William and Karen Miller, Hereford, TX; Larry and Karen Miller, Freeport, TX; Donald Miller, Foley, AL; David and Nancy Miller, Piedmont, SD; twenty grandchildren, twenty great grandchildren, four nieces, one nephew.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1967, a son Robert in 1971; two brothers and one sister-in-law, Clarence and Esther Ulrich, and Edward Ulrich; a sister, Frances Ulrich; a brother-in-law, Gene Anderson; a niece, Sharon Anderson.