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Betty Lou
Miller
Oct 30, 1929 — Jul 2, 2021
Betty Lou Miller, 91 of Charleroi, PA passed away Friday, July 2, 2021. She was born October 30,1929, in Bentleyville PA to Mike "Mack" Molek and Mary (Lopushansky) Molek. Betty was a devoted mother, a child-care provider, and a tireless worker. She was known to say whatever came into her mind which often got a laugh. Betty was the third oldest of 16 children raised on a farm near Bentleyville. As a child, she helped care for her younger siblings. At age 15, Betty went to work as a live-in nanny for a Pittsburgh doctor until 1948, with the last six months in Manhattan after the doctor's transfer. She had wonderful memories of those teenage years caring for the doctor's children while seeing Pittsburgh and then New York. Betty was Catholic. She really admired Pope John Paul II, the first pope from Poland. In 1951, Betty married Francis "Frank" E. Miller Jr. They had two children, David A. Miller (Diane) and Richard E. Miller, who survive. Betty and Frank divorced in the early sixties. From 1948 until 1970, Betty pressed clothes in dry cleaners in Charleroi and Monessen. In 1970, Betty landed a job at Monongahela Hospital which later became Mon Valley Hospital (MVH). She worked at MVH, primarily in the kitchen, until retiring at age 69. Betty had several friends from her generation, including a few former co-workers at MVH. She really enjoyed seeing or talking with them by phone after retirement. Betty was a devoted mother and her children always came first in her life's decisions. She also babysat often for neighbors and family. She had fond memories for the young children she watched. Betty enjoyed listening to polka, country, and the early rock and roll music. She also liked to sew, attend bingo, and photograph and videotape family. She had an incredible memory for the important dates in her family including her grandparents, the late Andrew and Anna (Kinsek) Molek and Stephen and Kathryn (Holuk) Lopushansky. Betty's parents are from families almost as large as hers. In addition to her sons, Betty is survived by her daughter-in-law, Diane (Rush) Miller, her step-granddaughter, Jenna Zihmer, her sisters, Judith Stringhill, Marjorie Gibino (Joseph), and Verna Molek, her brothers Andrew Molek (June), Frank Molek (Bonnie), and Joseph Molek and 34 nieces and nephews. Betty was preceded in death by her parents, two infant siblings, her sisters Rose Lutes, Lillian Zundel, Dolores Galamb, and Patricia Leyda Hellman, her brothers Amos Molek, Mathias "Mok" Molek, and John Molek, her godfather, Joseph Squirek, her godmother, Helen G. Mikulas, her son David's mother-in-law, Ursula Rush, at least 20 uncles and aunts by consanguinity, and 8 nieces and nephews. Thanks to the many caregivers at Mon Valley Hospital, Mon Valley Care Center, Cambridge Hillside, Caring Inc. hospice and others who cared for her in recent years.
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