Evelyn "Monte" Miller

Monte Miller, 89, passed
away Sept. 14, 2013, at
home with family members
near. She was born Evelyn May Boulden on Oct.
24, 1923, in a Montana log cabin on the Musselshell
River.

After graduation, she moved to the Vancouver area
where she worked as a welder in the Kaiser Shipyards
building Liberty ships. She married Ray James in
1940 and they had three children before relocating to
the Pendleton area prior to his death in 1956.

She married her longtime business partner, Bill
Miller, in 1971, and they owned and ran a restaurant
and lounge in Pendleton, where she became the matriarch
of an extended family of patrons and employees
before retiring in 1986.

After Bill’s death in 2001 she became increasingly
devoted to photography and loved driving area roads
with her friends in the Blue Mountain Photo Club on
photo shoots. She won many ribbons and awards for
her work.

She is survived by a stepson, Ronald James; daughter
Laura James; sons Shannon Peake, and Mike and
Lamarr James; sister-in-law Phyllis Lew of Baker
City, Ore.; nephew, John (Jan) Killian of California;
and niece Sue Eason of North Carolina. She is preceded
in death by her parents, Pearl and Frances
Boulden; sister Faye Killian; and brothers Allen and
Ken Boulden.

Memorial funeral service will be held Saturday,
Sept. 21, 2013, at 10 a.m. at the Chapel of the Herring
Funeral Home, 315 W. Alder, Walla Walla, with
the Rev. Steve Morris officiating. Memorial contributions
can be made in her honor to the Blue Mountain
Humane Society through the funeral home. Family
and friends are invited to sign the online guestbook
at www.herringgroseclose.com.