MILLER 60th

Harley Miller and Sharon Wakefield were married Dec. 17, 1959, at the Colton Adventist Church in California. Harley, from Eureka, South Dakota, and Sharon, from Takoma Park, Maryland, met as students at Loma Linda University. After Sharon’s graduation in 1959 she began teaching nursing on the White Memorial Campus of LLU.

The two were student missionaries at Monument Valley, Arizona, between Harley’s medical school years. He graduated in 1962. After internship at the Washington Adventist Hospital and Sanitarium in Maryland, he worked for two years for the Public Health Service in Tanana and Point Barrow, Alaska.

For the past 52 years Harley and Sharon have lived in Chehalis, Washington, where Harley continues to practice family medicine with the Steck Memorial Medical Group. He now works three days a week. Together the pair has enjoyed opportunities working with Maranatha and other mission projects, sometimes taking children and grandchildren with them. They have also visited villages in Germany and Russia where Harley’s ancestors lived.

They have six daughters: Marti Hall of Puyallup, Washington; Kellie Hall of St. Augustine, Florida; Carrie Bixel of Kirkland, Washington; Jennifer Sarthou of Seattle; Tara Vranes of Eagle River, Alaska; and Rachel Crudele of Portland, Oregon. They also have wonderful sons-in-law and nine precious grandchildren.