Uncrowned Community Builders

Willie Miller was known for many years in the Kenfield- Langfield housing complex as "Mother Miller" or "Granny Miller" for her unselfish aid to neighbors over the years. Children would flock to her and she always seemed to have a piece of candy to offer them or the toys she stocked in her basement. She helped out neighbors in lean times with food and clothing, and through her church visited the sick and disabled. Ms. Miller was active in church and community.

She was born in Meridian, Mississippi and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She came to Buffalo in 1944 where she met and later married her husband Samuel Miller. Mrs. Miller was 79 years old at the time of her death on August 18, 1996. She is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery.