Lee and I double dated two or three times and she was always more fun to be with than my date!! She loved to laugh and was one of the friendliest girls I ever met. Our lives were very different, but on those occasions when we were together, we had a blast. So sad she's gone.

"I always remember Lee Miller saying she was going to Hawaii [but then she moved to Alaska]. I decided that someday I would be able to say that I was going to Hawaii, too, which I did ... even lived there for awhile. Lee had the prettiest hair and the cutest boyfriend."

Lee Miller was home for a visit in January of 1965, and so was Carolyn Snow. We joined Sandy Ray for Bridge one evening at Carolyn's mom's apartment building near the NE Branch Library, and lost all track of time. Mrs. Snow tapped on the door. "Did you girls know it started snowing hours ago and there're several inches on the ground?" We hurriedly left Carolyn and finally got Lee down to her folks' house in Laurelhurst (but when Sandy couldn't get up that last block of my 65th street hill, although by now it was 4 a.m., she walked all the way home up by Eckstein). Lee had called after the Good Friday earthquake. Although she'd been in her Anchorage home at the time, miraculously they'd only had a few cracked plates in the cupboard. She also called me on my birthday. She "hated to write." I loved Lee for her character and class, and Carolyn for her style and enthusiasm.

The most memorable thing Lee Miller and I did was to get kicked out of Spurs (honorary group for Senior Girls) because we left two days early from school to go to Laguna Beach for Spring Vacation with her parents - Oh, the good old 50s - take THAT for breaking the rules! Lee went to the UW and later moved to Alaska where her husband, Andy Eker, joined her father and brother in the construction business. She was in Anchorage in the late 60s when that terrible Earthquake actually divided streets in half! After her children were raised she turned to art and then died much too early, as so many of these we are celebrating did.