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Marjorie Frances Fore Mrs. Marjorie Frances Miller, a longtime Albuquerque area resident, died March 28, 2005 of cancer. A beloved mother, wife, sister, and friend, she was 78. A native New Mexican, she was born on October 14, 1926, to Ollie and Lucille Fore in Hondo, NM. In the early 1930s her family moved to the Las Vegas, NM, area where her father was a foreman on the old Salman Ranch. During the school years she and her mother and brothers would move to Las Vegas where, she once related, she lived in 31 different places. She attended The First Baptist Church in Las Vegas. Upon graduation from Las Vegas High School in 1944 she worked at nearby Camp Luna before moving to Albuquerque in late 1945 to work at the then Sandia Air Field and, later, for J. Korber & Co. and Albuquerque Public Schools. She married John E. Miller, who became a longtime employee of Navajo Freight Lines, on March 3, 1946, after his return from military service in the South Pacific. She and her husband were prominent members of the Trinity Baptist Church on Albuquerque's West Side, where she was church secretary and organist for many years. Upon her husband's death she worked for Yellow Freight Lines before retiring. In 1993 she moved to Rio Rancho where she became a member of Rio Rancho First Baptist Church and was a volunteer receptionist at Meadowlark Senior Center. She is survived by two daughters, Marsha Lynn Colby and Lynda Caryl Gramlich of Northern California; a son, Leslie Eugene Miller, Los Lunas; two brothers, Luther D. Fore, Miles City, MT, and Arthur W. Fore, Santa Rosa, CA; and a sister, Audrey M. Baker, Albuquerque. She was preceded in death by an older brother, Roy. She is also survived by three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Juanita M. Bennett of Rio Rancho and Alpha Schweedler of McIntosh, NM; and numerous nieces and nephews as well as countless friends on the West Side and Rio Rancho. Memorial Services will be held at Rio Rancho First Baptist Church on Saturday, April 2, 2005 at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial gift to the American Cancer Society or to the Rio Rancho First Baptist Church Building Fund.
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