Sister Margaret Mary Miller, OCD

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Sister Margaret Mary Miller, OCD

October 14, 1927 ~ August 27, 2025

In your kindness, please pray for the repose of the soul of Sister Margaret Mary Miller, OCD.

Sister Margaret Mary, a member of the Carmelite monastery in Salt Lake City, was called home at 4 a.m. on August 27, 2025 in the 80th year of her religious life at the same Carmelite monastery in Salt Lake City. Sister was born on October 14, 1927. Her secular name was Roseanne Margaret Miller. She had one older brother and one younger sister.

Sister’s birthplace was Omaha, Nebraska, but only five days after she was born, her mother, brother, and she took the train to Los Angeles, where her father had gone ahead to prepare a home for them. Two years later, the family moved to Glendale. She attended Holy Family parish school.

On October 28, 1945, at age 18, she entered the Discalced Carmelite nuns’ monastery in Alhambra, California. 

At the age of 25, Sister was a member of the group from the Alhambra monastery that made the foundation of a new Carmel in Salt Lake City, under Bishop Duane Hunt. Here she faithfully served the community in many functions, such as sacristan, kitchen provisor, sub-prioress and prioress. She loved Holy Mother St. Teresa and had great devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary and, of course, her patron saint, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque. Her great zeal to offer her intercessory prayer for the Catholic Church in Utah as a cloistered Carmelite nun helped enkindle her faith in building up this Carmel in Utah along with her fellow nuns. As a Carmelite nun, Sister knew it was hard, but it was all for the love of God.

Around age 72, Sister Margaret Mary’s health began to decline, but the good Lord blessed her with a very sharp mind until the day He came for her, two months shy of her 98th birthday. She died from a complication of a stroke that she suffered on July 9 of this year. 

She is survived by her two nephews, Richard and Dennis Kryzer, of California, and her religious family, the Carmelite nuns of Salt Lake City. She will be greatly missed.

The vigil with rosary will be on Friday, August 29 at 7 p.m. in the chapel of the Carmelite monastery, 5714 S Holladay Blvd. Salt Lake City.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, August 30 at 11 a.m. at the Carmelite monastery. Bishop Oscar A. Solis will preside. Interment will follow at Mount Calvary Cemetery in Salt Lake City.

Services entrusted to Starks Funeral Parlor.