Fayetta Joyce Miller

FOSTER — Services for Fayetta Joyce Miller, 81, of Plainview will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Foster with burial in Pleasant View Cemetery in Plainview. Visitation will be 5-8 p.m. Monday at the church under direction of Ashburn Funeral Home.She died Friday, Jan. 30, 2015, at Plainview Manor.

Fayetta Joyce Miller was born May 25, 1933, to Hollis and Eveline (Duerst) Holmes near Foster. She attended rural School District 31 and Plainview High School. Fayetta was baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church in Foster on March 19, 1948, and confirmed on March 21, 1948, by the Rev. E. Budde.

Fayetta married Alvin Miller at Yankton, S.D., on Feb. 28, 1950, and to this union three children were born, Alvetta Rafert, Arla Petersen and Richard Miller. She had nine grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

Fayetta was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, Fellowship Club, Ladies Aid and L.W.M.L. She worked at the Plainview Manor for three years, then Dale Electronics in Norfolk for 25 years, retiring in November of 1998. Fayetta also volunteered at the Plainview Social Center.

She is survived by two daughters and one son, Alvetta and Lyle Rafert of Plainview, Arla and Dennis Petersen of Norfolk and Richard and Linda Miller of Norfolk; nine grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and one sister.

Fayetta was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Alvin on April 30, 2006, and one granddaughter, Laurie Miller.