Ella Mae Miller

ELLA MAE MILLER

ALMOND-Ella Mae Miller, 88, formerly of Whitney Valley Heights, passed away Friday evening (Oct. 19, 2012) at the Wellsville Manor Care Center, where she has resided for nearly the past four years.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio on Feb. 19, 1924, she was the daughter of the late David Glenn and Minnie Mae Copeland Bollinger. In 1976 she was married in Cleveland to Edward F. “Neil” Miller, and was a devoted wife to him for 34 years until he passed away on Dec. 5, 2010. Besides her parents, she was also predeceased by her brother, Rev. Charles Earl Bollinger and her two sisters-in-law, Mary Frances Wright Bollinger and Nancy Solan Bollinger.
Ella Mae attended the Doan Elementary School, the Fairmont Junior High School, East High School and Cleveland College, an affiliate with Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
She was proud of her employment for many years in Cleveland at the May Company and Fairview General Hospital (a Cleveland Clinic Hospital) where she was employed as an administrative assistant to several physicians. She was also a dedicated caregiver of her parents, David and Minnie Bollinger until the time of their deaths.
Ella Mae and her husband Ed became residents of Whitney Valley Heights in Almond in 1977. They loved spending time caring for their home as well as their flower and vegetable gardens. They also took great pride in decorating the trees in the village park in Almond for the Christmas holiday. Ella Mae loved the Christmas season and enjoyed decorating her home and entertaining. She was also an artist who loved making craft projects.
Both Ella Mae and Ed will be remembered for their generosity to various charities including sponsoring a scholarship for the Hornell High School Alumni Assoc. in memory of Ed’s parents, Frank and Mary Miller.
While residing in Cleveland she was a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church and was also a communicant of St. Ann’s Church in Hornell and St. Brendan’s Church in Almond.
Her family includes her nieces and nephews, Kathy Bollinger, Charles Bollinger, Rev. David Bollinger (Kelly Adair Bollinger), Thomas Bollinger, Paul Bollinger; her grandnieces, Sarah Frances Wells (Greg), Elizabeth Adair Warneck (Tim) and Anne Marie Bollinger (Andy Acs); her great-grand niece, Madeleine Claire Wells; also her two sisters-in-law, Lucy (Francis) Solo and Janet Grassi all of Hornell and her brother-in-law, Salvatore Miller of Binghamton.

There will be an hour of calling from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Bishop & Johnson Funeral Home, Inc., 285 Main St., Hornell, where a prayer service will be held following the hour of calling at 10:30 a.m. and at 11 a.m. Wednesday a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Ann’s Church in Hornell. Interment will follow at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Town of Fremont.
In lieu of flowers, those wishing may contribute in her memory to Our Lady of the Valley Parish, 27 Erie Ave., Hornell, N.Y. 14843 or to Ss. Brendan and Jude Parish, P.O. Box 1154, Alfred, N.Y. 14802. Envelopes for memorial contributions will be available at the funeral home.