Isabel (Acarda) Miller, BVM

Isabel Miller, BVM (Acarda) died Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018, at Marian Hall in Dubuque, Iowa. Visitation will be from 9:30–10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, in the Marian Hall Chapel, followed by a community prayer and funeral liturgy at 10:30 a.m. Burial is in the Mount Carmel cemetery.

She was born in Davenport, Iowa, on Aug. 5, 1921, to Nicholas and Anna Scheckel Miller. She entered the BVM congregation Sept. 8, 1939, from St. Mary Parish, Davenport. She professed first vows on March 19, 1942, and final vows on Aug. 15, 1947.

Sister Isabel taught elementary school in Chicago, Maywood, and Rock Island, Ill.; Hempstead, N.Y.; Waterloo, Boone, Des Moines, and Council Bluffs, Iowa; Butte, Mont.; Lincoln, Neb.; and Clarksdale, Miss. She was learning center teacher in Muscatine, Iowa, and volunteer in Chicago.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers Norman and James Miller; and sisters Genevieve Miller, Mildred Johnson, and Anna Marie Langenecker. She is survived by a brother, John (Charlene) Miller, Davenport; nieces; nephews; and the Sisters of Charity, BVM, with whom she shared life for 78 years.

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