MILLER DORIS M. Passed away peacefully on February 12, 2016. Born in Evans City, PA to Anna Pauly and Henry J. Bastian (former employee of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and author of Meditations of an American Patriot). She was the youngest of six siblings, enjoying and often reveling in her spoiled status. She met Roy H. Miller, a tall handsome man, on a streetcar in Pittsburgh, and married him in 1940. Doris was a trained secretary, but when BF Goodrich learned she was married, she was let go ("How times have changed!" she used to quip). They moved to their first home, in Pleasant Hills, in 1944. Roy served in the 16th Armored Division of the U.S. Army during World War II and returned to become a Vice President at the Union National Bank of Pittsburgh. Doris became a stellar homemaker and mom to four children who eventually scattered to San Francisco, Minneapolis and Denver. They loved her for being her, for her sense of humor, organizational skills (Oh, those lists!), computer literacy at age 90, and memories like "not complaining about my keeping tadpoles and frogs on the back porch", for "singing WWII songs with me as we did the dishes", for "playing card games with me whenever I wanted", and for "letting us be independent". Doris and Roy, out for a new adventure, retired to the glamour of Las Vegas in 1982. She considered her greatest legacy to be her family which includes grandchildren who remember her with affection as the "Queen" or the "Sparkly Grandma" with Christmas trees and holly leaves painted on her fingernails. Roy lost his battle with leukemia in 1990. In 2003 Doris resettled to San Rafael, CA in the Rotary Valley Senior Village where she made many lasting friends who appreciated her nonjudgmental and humorous disposition. She was preceded in death by her parents; and five siblings; her husband, Roy; her daughter, Carol Currie, of pancreatic cancer in 2003; and grandson, Max Schoder, of leukemia in 1990. She is survived by daughters, Janet Miller Schoder of San Rafael, CA and Linda Kaufman of Denver; son, Robert Miller of San Francisco; son-in-law, Andrew Currie of Minneapolis; and by two sisters-in-law, Dorothy Paul and June Eichner of Pittsburgh. She also leaves nine grandchildren; and ten great-grandchildren. The family will travel this summer to Las Vegas to celebrate her life and return Doris to her final resting place alongside her husband, Roy. Donations in her memory may be made to All Creatures Animal Caring Society, PO Box 3664, San Rafael, CA 94912 or the Alzheimer's Association, PO Box 96011, Washington, DC 20090-6011, (www.alz.org). Send condolences post-gazette.com/gb