Taimi Miller

Taimi Miller Obituary

Taimi was born in Portland to Nestor and Irene Kosky.

Soon after she was born, the family moved to a farm outside of Toledo, Wash., where she grew up and went to school. She spoke only Finnish at home and didn’t learn English until she went to school. Somehow, though, during her education, she learned to read and write, as well as, speak Finnish, a skill she kept most of her life. After high school, she came to Portland and went to a business college and then took a job with an insurance company.

While in Portland, she was introduced to a Finnish boy, John Miller. After a short courtship, they were married Oct. 5, 1940. This union produced three boys: Glen, Gale and Craig.

After the children came, she gave up her job and became a homemaker in the best tradition of the Greatest Generation. During the war when John was in the service, she held down the home front: raising the boys, sewing, cooking, keeping the house and paying the bills, including paying off the house during the war. After John returned from the service, his sales job kept him on the road during the week and Taimi continued doing what she had always done.

She and her husband spent much of their retirement in a quiet home on the Tualatin River where Taimi kept the flowers and family and friends visited.

She is survived by her son, Glen Gary Miller; grandchildren, Gavin Miller, Kelsey Paulus, Corrie Cook and Gary S. Miller; and eight great-grandchildren, who made her smile to her last days.

Gone before her are her husband, John Robert Miller; and sons, Gale Miller and Craig Miller.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014, at Valley View Church, 11501 S.E. Sunnyside Road, Clackamas, OR 97015.

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I am so sorry for your loss. Please know that you are never alone. You can find much comfort in God’s Word, the Bible, which assures us at Psalms 34:18 that God is near to those broken at heart and crushed in spirit. Please accept my deepest sympathies.