LOXLEY, Ala. – Emelda Miller, 61, a resident of Andrea Avenue in Benton, died Friday, Jan. 25, from injuries sustained in a tragic automobile accident, which also took the lives of her beloved husband Charlie and daughter Mona Jean Carter.

She was born on June 9, 1946, in Livermore Falls, the daughter of Henry and Rita (Litalien) Boucher and was a graduate of Livermore Falls High School.

On Aug. 2, 1966, she married Charles H. Miller Jr. of Braintree, Mass., at St. Rose of Lima Church in Jay. She and her husband made their home on Ludden Drive in Jay before moving to Benton in 1988.

She had worked as a hairdresser in Livermore Falls and Jay and was a representative for Bristol-Myers Co. She also was an officer for the TOPS program and a leader at weight watchers. She had been a communicant of St. Rose of Lima Church in Jay.

She and her family enjoyed their camp on Canton Lake and riding the jet-ski, snow skiing, quilting, playing dominoes, cards and getting together with her close friends. She and Charlie enjoyed traveling and just being with one another and their children, Dan and Mona Jean. She will be truly missed by all who knew her.

She is survived by her mother, Rita Boucher of St. Cloud, Fla.; a son, Dan Miller and his wife, Amy, of Hampden; a son-in-law, Scott Carter of Alabama; five grandchildren; two brothers, Bernard Boucher and his wife, Jackie, of St. Cloud, Fla., and Paul Boucher and his wife, Claire, of Livermore Falls; two sisters, Bernice Adams and her husband, Will, of Jay and Betty Plaisted and her husband, George, of Jay.

She was predeceased by her father, Henry Boucher.