By Staff
Dr. Linda Brown Cartner Miller died at U. H. S. Inpatient Hospice with her family present on March 31, 2010 at the age of 54.
A memorial service will be announced at a later date to be held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Greenville. Interment will be private.
Dr. Miller was born January 11, 1956 in Lenoir, NC, daughter and second child of John Alexander Cartner, Jr. of Lenoir and Anna Gertrude Hardison Cartner of Pitt County. She was educated in the public schools of Greenville, NC and graduated from Stuart Hall School, Staunton, VA in 1974. She attended and graduated from North Carolina State University in textile engineering in 1978 and was awarded the M.S. degree in the same field in 1980 where her thesis was on the knot strengths of sutures. She was employed in the textile industry in Tennessee and North Carolina where she developed a further interest in medicine from her volunteer efforts as an emergency medical and paramedical technician. Dr. Miller graduated from the Brody School of Medicine of East Carolina University in 1999 and where she performed her resident training in psychiatry. She subsequently practiced in Beaufort, Martin and Pamlico Counties as a child psychiatrist.
She is survived by her: husband, Donald S. Miller; daughters, Sarah T.C. Miller, student at Meredith College, and Elizabeth R.B. Miller, student at P.S. Jones Middle School; brother, John A.C. Cartner and wife, Mary Charles, of Alexandria, VA and Beaufort, NC; uncles, George Hardison, of Wadsworth, OH, and C.J. Cartner, of Newport News, VA; brother-in-law, Edgar M. Swindell and wife, Jessica Parks, of Alexandria, VA; nephew, Christian W.J. Cartner; nieces, Natalie V.O. Cartner, Allison P. Swindell, and Caitlin P. Swindell; and grandniece, Skyler O. G. Cartner.
The family request donations in lieu of flowers be sent to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Attn: Donor Services, PO Box 650309, Dallas, TX 75265-0309 in memory and honor of Dr. Linda B. Miller or to the Service League of Greenville Inpatient Hospice, C/O PCMH Foundation, P.O. Box 8489, Greenville, NC 27835-8489.
Online condolences at www.wilkersonfuneralhome.com
Arrangements by Wilkerson Funeral Home and Crematory, Greenville.
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