Lucile Shults Miller (Plainview)

Lucile Shults Miller, 93, formerly of Plainview, TX passed away December 6, 2015 in Bryan, Texas. Funeral services will be held 11:00 A.M. Friday, December 11, at Kornerstone Funeral Directors Chapel, 3605 SW 3rd Street, Plainview. Visitation will be at Kornerstone on Thursday, December 10 from 5 - 7 pm. Lucile was born July 10, 1922 in St Louis, Missouri to Aldo Aylette Shults and Ruby Faye Calhoon Shults. The family moved to San Antonio, Texas when she was 10, where she graduated from Edison High School. She attended San Antonio Business College and the University of San Antonio, now the University of Texas San Antonio. She graduated from Baylor University and received a Masters from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. She taught over 25 years in Baptist Sunday Schools and served on the staffs at First Baptist Church, San Antonio; First Baptist Church, Arlington; and First Baptist Church, Dallas, where she met the church organist, Earl Miller. They married June 12, 1953. Lucile and Earl moved to Plainview in 1957 where he was on the faculty at Wayland Baptist University for over 36 years. A homemaker, she was a member of College Heights Baptist Church, but sang in the choirs at First Methodist, Hale Center, and St Mark’s Episcopal Church, where Earl was the Organist/Choirmaster. She sang in church and school choirs most of her life. Lucile taught private piano and supported Plainview music. She was a Plainview Community Concert board member, members of the Musical Arts Club, American Guild of Organists, American Association of University Women (AAUW), Plainview Delphin Club, Wayland Woman’s Club, and PTA. During the summers, Lucile and their daughter, Elizabeth Ann, traveled with Earl while he earned credit hours in music and organ in Texas, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico camping in many places along the way. She traveled on several organ study tours to Europe where Earl played organs in France, England, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Lucile enjoyed reading, particularly about historical women. She also enjoyed watching sports, especially the World Series and Olympic ice hockey. She was on the volleyball team in high school, and while visiting relatives’ farms in Iowa, she loved riding horses as often as she could. After moving to Plainview, she and the family attended most Wayland sporting events, particularly the Flying Queens basketball games. She loved listening to Earl play the organ and piano. Lucile was preceded in death by her parents; husband Earl on June 13, 2015; and by her brother John Aldo Shults on September 9, 2015. She is survived by her daughter, Elizabeth Ann (Liz) Lawson and husband Hank of College Station; sister, Rita Shults Hogue and husband Ed of San Antonio; and nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Wayland Baptist University, 1900 W 7th, Box 1295, Plainview, TX 79072; memo: Earl & Lucile Miller Endowed Scholarship.