Anna Jane Miller
Anna Jane “AJ” Miller, 95, died April 20, 2021, at Moravian Village, where she resided. She was the wife of the late Dr. Warren A. Miller for 70 years.
Born in Northampton, she was a daughter of the late Lloyd and Mabel (Silfies) Schisler.
She was a 1944 graduate of Northampton High School. She was a 1947 graduate of West Chester State Teachers College, now West Chester University, where she majored in music education.
She taught music in public school for a year. She was a pianist and accompanist.
She was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Fountain Hill, where she was a president of Lutheran Church Women, vice president of the church council, member of the church choir and a Sunday school teacher. She joined Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Dingman’s Ferry, in 2003 where she was a piano accompanist for the church choir for 20 years. She has been a member of Christ Lutheran Church of Hellertown since May 2017.
She was a member at Blue Heron Lake since 1949. She and her husband co-authored and self-published, “A History of Blue Heron Lake,” in 2004.
She was a guarantor of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem and a member of the Pennsylvania German Society. She was a board member and past president of the Friends of Music of Bethlehem. She was a board member of both the Sayre Child Center and the YWCA of Bethlehem.
She is survived by two sons, William Lloyd with Deborah Riffee of Allentown and Andrew Warren of Bethlehem; a daughter, Marianna Beth Tlush with Anthony P. of Bethlehem; two grandsons, Ethan Lloyd Miller with Kathryn Boverman of Greene, Maine and Charles Warren Werley of San Jose, Calif.; two granddaughters, Lindsay Marianna Miller of Allentown and Susanna Jane Werley of San Diego, Calif.; and a great-grandson, Loren Miller Boverman.
She was predeceased by a brother, Charles Harvey Schisler of Atlanta, Ga.
Services are private.
Contributions may be made to the music ministry at Christ Lutheran Church of Hellertown, 69 Main St., Hellertown, 18055; or to the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, 440 Heckewelder Place, Bethlehem, 18018.
Arrangements were made by Schisler Funeral Home Inc., Northampton.