Barbara Jean Miller

Barbara J. Miller, 75, of Syracuse, Missouri passed away Thursday, September 12, 2019 at Boone Hospital in Columbia.

She was born August 8, 1944 in Kansas City, Missouri, a daughter of Jerome J. and Cyrilla R. (Wessing) Gantner. On December 27, 1962, she married Nathan E. Miller in Pilot Grove, Missouri who survives of the home.

She graduated from Pilot Grove High School and later graduated from State Fair Community College with an associates accounting degree. She worked as a homemaker, for CoMo Electric as an administrative clerk, as a family case worker with Central Missouri Community Action Agency, as food supervisor at Columbia Boys Home, as food supervisor at Tipton Correctional facility, and lastly as a para-professional at Bunceton School District working with special needs kids.

She was an expert gardener and loved working with her flowers and plants, as well as making crafts, flower arrangements, and traveling all over central Missouri to craft shows and fairs, peddling her wares. She also loved sewing and making clothes.

She was a member of St. Andrew Catholic Church of Tipton and in recent years St. Joseph's parish in Clifton City.

She was preceded in death by her parents, one son-in-law, and four miscarriages.

She is survived by her spouse of 56 years, Nathan E. Miller; daughters Jeannie Tuttle and her husband Mike of Bunceton, Brenda Munnerlyn and her husband Phillip of Kaufman, Texas, Carrie Long and her husband Forrest of Clarksburg, Natalie Miller of Dallas, Texas, Christina Mettenburg of Jamestown; 12 grandchildren; 5 great-grandchildren; sister Karen Zander and her husband Bill of Fisher, Indiana; brother John Gantner and his wife Judy of St. Peters, Missouri; 4 nephews and 2 nieces.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:00 a.m., Monday, September 16, 2019 at St. Andrew Catholic Church with interment immediately following at St. Andrew Catholic Cemetery, Tipton. Rosary will be at 4:30 p.m., Sunday, September 15, 2019, with visitation following until 7:00 p.m. at Meisenheimer Funeral Home in Tipton.

Memorials for Barbara Jean Miller are suggested to: "Miller Grandchildren Educational Fund".

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Rosary will begin at 4:30 p.m., Sunday, September 15, 2019 prior to visitation at Meisenheimer Funeral Home, Tipton.