MILLER, Elizabeth Mary Kathleen (Nee O'Connell)

Peacefully at Peterborough Regional Health Centre on Sunday, October 5, 2008, in her 93rd year. Wife of the late Robert ("Red") Miller. Loving mother of Patrick (Sharon Thorne), Ian (Mary Chambers) and Robert. Dear grandmother of Robert and Christy, Kate and Daniel. Dear great grandmother of Alexis Elizabeth. Dear sister of Patricia Piercy. Pre-deceased by her parents, John O'Connell and Helena Warburton. Elizabeth was always proud of the fact that she was a great granddaughter of Daniel O'Connell, known in the 19th Century Ireland as "The Liberator", and revered there to this day. Elizabeth lived in London throught WW II, where she endured the bombing raids of the "Blitz", and the privations and dangers of wartime Britain. She married a Canadian airman, Robert "Red" Miller (RCAF), in London, in 1943. After the war, like so many "war brides", she left England. Accompanied only by her new baby (Patrick), she joined her husband in Canada. They settled in post-war Toronto, where they raised their family of three sons, Patrick, Ian and Robert. Elizabeth best loved her summers spent at the family's property on the Ottawa River, an Old Hudson's Bay Company post known as Old Fort William. She will be fondly rememberd, and greatly missed, by all who knew her there.

Private family arrangements. In memory of Elizabeth, donations to the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated.