Phyllis Lorraine (Haubein) Miller

Phyllis Lorraine (Haubein) Miller went home to Jesus on Sunday, October 9th. She was born August 30, 1930 in Lockwood. She was a proud graduate of Lockwood High School, Class of '48.

Even though her first years were lived during the depression and war time, she always said Lockwood was a perfect place to grow up. We grew up on stories of the close relationships and good times she had with her school mates and community. Many of them family, as all four sets of her grandparents were from this area.

She married Henry Allen (Shot) Miller, whose family operated The Red Mill here in Lockwood.

Shot and the Miller family had moved to Odessa, Texas, in 1948, for work in the Permian Basin oilfields. She joined him there and they were married December 21, 1948, by Pastor Kohlemeyer.

They lived in Odessa 31 years where Phyllis was a stay-at-home momma and raised their three daughters. In 1979, after a short stint managing a Motel 6 in Shreveport, Louisianna, she and Shot moved to Lake J. B. Thomas near Snyder, Texas, where Shot was a heavy equipment operator and Phyllis worked helping her elderly neighbors by cleaning and mowing and doing anything they would let her.

She loved keeping her four grandsons for several weeks in the summers.

They also enjoyed their hobby of hunting arrowheads which was one of the two things they had agreed on before getting married.

She and Shot decided Lockwood would be a good place to land and moved back here in '94. They purchased a fixer upper and property across from their home shortly after.

She enjoyed remodeling her home and landscaping and maintaining all that green grass after her years in the deserts of SW Texas. She also enjoyed having her mother and all her siblings close.

She instituted our weekly family dinners, saying she wasn't much of a visitor but everyone needs to eat and if we would meet at a local restaurant, (she was a firm believer in "keeping it local"), no one would have to clean, cook or do dishes.

Even though her eyes and balance issues kept her from attending in the last few years, we still meet, though the group grows smaller.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Frances and Opal (Manka) Haubein; her husband, Shot Miller; her brother-in-law, Lloyd Miller; and nephew, Garry Miller all of Lockwood; a sister-in-law, Ethel (Miller) Hunt; nephew, Bobby Hunt; and great niece, Judy Hunt, of Odessa.

She is survived by two sisters: Maxine Miller, Loretta Koontz, husband, Kenneth; her brother, Gary Haubein, wife, Margo, all of Lockwood; her three daughters: Tonya Garreaud and her husband, Hernan, of Kanab, Utah; Holly Carter and her husband, Daniel, of Joplin; and Kristy Miller of Lockwood; four grandsons: Jasen and Cabot Peacock (Utah); Ruben (Texas); and Isaac Carter (Joplin); 11 great-grandchildren; three nieces: Carol (Miller) her husband, Tom Pyle, Stockton; Sharon (Miller) Moore (Texas); and Tamara (Koontz) Bartholomew (Springfield); four nephews: Bill Hunt, his wife, Carol (Texas); Jerry Hunt, his wife, Faye Ann (Texas); Tracy (France); Travis, his wife, Glenda (Springfield); and 15 surviving great nieces and nephews.

There will be no service, but feel free to make a donation to Compassus Hospice, whose help was God sent, or to your favorite "local" charity.