Sandra Roberta Miller

Sandra Roberta Miller was born on November 24, 1943 in Anderson, Indiana, the daughter of Robert Earl and Helen Martha (Ison) Miler. After graduating from Anderson High School, she earned a B.S.N in nursing from California State University, Los Angeles and a M.Ed. in Education, Management and Administration from Antioch University(Cambridge, Massachusetts). She served in the Peace Corps in Maharashtra, India for two years. On Returning home, she worked as a public health nurse and as a supervisor for various health projects for the Boston Department of Health Services. For another eight years, she was a health services specialist in the office of Deputy Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Social Services. In 1989 she and her two children moved to San Diego where she became the Project Director for a health passport project in the Center for Child Projection at the Children’s Hospital and Health Center. Her proudest professional achievement came in the last ten years of her career as she became a local and national leader in developing family violence programs. The program she established at San Diego Children’s Hospital and Health Center is still active and acknowledged as a leading model for family violence programs across the country. She also led the effort to start a Family Violence Council in San Diego County and received numerous grants and awards for her work. After retiring she moved with her husband and family to a small ranch in southeastern New Mexico and then, for the remainder of her life, to Corvallis, Oregon. Sandy enjoyed cooking with local, organic and natural foods and she was an excellent chef. Sandy’s greatest joy was found in being a loving and devoted mother and grandmother and it is for the passion she displayed in those roles that she would most want to be remembered. Sandy was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Hough and is survived by her children, Kelli Wallner and Alexander Brown; by her grandchildren, Kassia Wallner, Caleb Brown and Jacob Brown, all of Oregon; by her brother, Harold Miller of Anderson, Indiana and by numerous nephews and nieces. She is also survived by two step-children, Catherine Hough of Austin, Texas and Jessica Hough of Bethesda Maryland and through them grandchildren Ashton Brubaker, Wesley Brubaker and Mazzie Carroll.

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Sandra Roberta Miller

November 24, 1943 - November 29, 2022