Ersie and Ruth Miller shared a deep and mutual lifelong commitment to education.

 

Mr. Miller retired from the Springfield Public School System in 1973 after 44 years of teaching. One year later, he began teaching math at Sinclair Community College and continued until he was 80 years old. Mrs. Miller taught school in Englewood, Ohio, and the Springfield City and Northeastern Local school districts in Clark County. Over a span of 46 years, she taught English and history at the junior and senior high levels. She also instructed children with disabilities.

 

The Millers first met when Ersie was Ruth’s high school history teacher, and they married 10 years later. Both were graduates of Wittenberg University and earned their master’s degrees at The Ohio State University. They were very involved in the community. He volunteered at Shawnee High School in Springfield and was the Springfield-Clark County Chamber of Commerce’s Santa Claus for a number of years at the “Little Red House on the Esplanade.” She worked with the Jail Chaplaincy Program in the Springfield jail. Both were active members of Covenant Presbyterian Church.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Miller were married for 54 years and had four children - Grant, Dane, Julia and Neal; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. They firmly believed in the “power of education” that is commemorated, by their family, through the Ersie and Ruth Miller Education Wall of Honor.

 

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