Virginia Miller

Virginia D. (Ginger) Miller, 92, of Abilene, TX, passed away on February 2, 2025, in Abilene.

A Memorial Service will be held at 2:00, Saturday, June 21 at Wesley Court, 2617 Antilley Rd., Abilene. Inurnment will be at Texas State Veterans Cemetery at Abilene, where her ashes will join her husband's, James E. Miller, who served in the Pacific Theater in WWII and predeceased her. Services are under the direction of The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road.

Ginger was born in Cold Spring, KY to Roger and Edith Harper on November 27, 1932. She attended school in Cold Spring, where she was the valedictorian of her eighth grade class, and not just because she was the only girl. She graduated from Campbell County High School in 1950, and went to work at Cincinnati Gas and Electric.

She met Jim on a blind date arranged by his sister and married him nine months later, on January 9, 1954, after which they immediately left for California and life in the Sierra Nevadas, to pursue Jim's vocation of forester, followed by Arlington, VA, Denver, CO, and finally retiring to Abilene.

Ginger taught 5-year-olds in Sunday School for decades, and sang in the church choir. She was a great cook and loved to entertain, bringing her community closer through her hospitality. Ginger was proud to be a wife, homemaker, and mother, and her life's work was seeing her children's success.

Ginger began walking for exercise with a neighbor in the late 1960's, long before it became fashionable, and never quit. She was still walking around the neighborhood or in the halls of Wesley Court every day until she died. She was known as "the lady who walks" at Wesley Court.

She started traveling internationally after she turned 60, with trips to England, Australia, Ireland, the Caribbean, the Panama Canal and France.

Ginger was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her sister Jane Dotsey and her brother Ernest Harper.

She is survived by her daughter Debra McVicker (John), son Scot (Jami Adams), brother Fred Harper, sister Beth Moore, grandchildren Daniel McVicker (Stephanie), Simon McVicker-Waters (Meghan), Garrett Miller and great-granddaughter Adelaide McVicker-Waters.

The family wishes to thank the Wesley Court community for their support and love. Thank you.

She never met a stranger, and made friends with everyone she could.

Ginger had a hand-written note in her kitchen:

Be someone

who makes

someone

feel like

someone.