\t\t\tMary S. Miller \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
Mary S. Miller, 96, of Emmaus, passed away on July 22, 2026 at the LVHN Hospice Inpatient Unit. She was married for 61 years to Wesley Miller, who passed away in 2011. Born in Harlem, PA, she was the daughter of the later Peter and Elsie (Gregory) Bower. She was a 1949 graduate of Emmaus High School. Mary started her working career at 15 years old, working as a nanny for Billy Soose (the boxer) at Lake Wallenpaupack. That began her lifelong love of the lake, where she water skied until age 79! She also taught her children and grandsons, and many others, to water ski.<\/p>\n
\nHer other jobs were working at McCrory\u2019s, Movie Star Manufacturing Co., Saucon Hosiery Mill, Hutton Wasserman. Mary also was a parts runner and bookkeeper for her father\u2019s automotive repair shop, Bower\u2019s Garage, on Buckeye Road in Emmaus. She also did bookkeeping for Blackman\u2019s Cycle. Later in life, she worked for Weaver\u2019s Gems, Bath & Body Works, Time for You, and Just Nuts and Candy.<\/p>\n
\nMary was a lifelong member of Grace Lutheran Church in Macungie, where she taught Sunday School and Vacation Bible School in her younger years. She also enjoyed bowling for over 30 years, which included going to regionals and state finals.<\/p>\n
\nShe was the loving mother of Deborah Senavaitis (widow of William) of Bernville, David Miller (Kim), and Kathleen Miller, both of Emmaus. She was the proud grandmother of four grandsons: William Senavaitis of Sellersville, Nicholas (Alicia) of Colorado, Timothy Senavaitis (Kristin) of New York, and Nathaniel (companion Catherine) of Maine. She also had two great-grandchildren, Everett and Vivian of Colorado.<\/p>\n
\nServices: Memorial 11:30 AM Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at Bachman, Kulik & Reinsmith Funeral Home, 225 Elm Street, Emmaus. A calling hour will be held from 10:30-11:30 AM Wednesday in the funeral home. Burial will be private at a later date at Woodlawn Memorial Park, Allentown.<\/p>\n
\nIn lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Mary S. Miller Memorial Fund, c\/o Grace Lutheran Church, 28 W. Main Street, Macungie, PA 18062.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary S. Miller OBITUARY Mary S. Miller, 96, of Emmaus, passed away on July 22, 2026 at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-253717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}