- Date Of Birth: July 13, 1927
- Date Of Death: July 10, 2022
- State: Idaho
Betty J Bischoff died on July 10, 2022, just a few days from her 95th birthday, from natural causes.
Born July 13, 1927 to Marion Montgomery and Jean Lucille Woodworth Harriss, in Allegan, Michigan, where she was the second of four children. When she was four, the family moved to Tyler, Texas, where they lived for a short time. They next moved to Southern Illinois, where she spent her school years in Harrisburg, Chester, Murphysboro, and Carbondale, graduating from Carbondale Community High School in 1945. She attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.
She married Clayton Lee Miller in 1946 in Carbondale and they had five children. In 1956 they moved to Idaho Falls, Idaho, where Mr. Miller was employed at the INEEL. They divorced in 1962.
She married Ruben David Bischoff in 1967 and the next year they moved to Boise, Idaho.
Betty married Walter Mifflin, whom she had known from her time in Southern Illinois, in June of 1991, in Boise. They divided their time between Boise and his home in Glen Ellyn, Illinois during most of their marriage.
While in Idaho Falls, Betty worked as an advertising agent for the Idaho Falls Post Register. She was also active in the Girl Scouts there, being a troop leader and a trainer of troop leaders. She also did the same Girl Scout work as troop leader and trainer in Boise after she moved here. In Idaho Falls, she was involved in helping organize and start the Girl Scout Camp Tamanawis, Northeast of town.
Betty is survived by her daughters Rev. Gay Ann Jeffery of Reno, NV; Tina Jane and husband Carl Balsley of Nampa, ID; Wendy Sue Hamon of Gardner, CO; sons Mark Allen and wife Valerie Chapman Miller of Portland, OR and Rick Dean and wife Sheila Miller of Anchorage, AK; sister Carolyn S and husband C Val McGuire of Bloomington, IL. Also surviving are stepdaughters Debbie and husband Ken Stearns of Meridian, ID; and Diana Jessee of Spokane, WA, and stepson Arthur Mifflin of Tampa, FL. Also, grandsons Rev. Kirk Jeffery of Reno, NV; Carl and wife Jacie Jeffery of Reno, NV; Keith Jeffery of Glendale, CA and Devin Hamon of Gardner, CO. Extended family includes step-granddaughter Christine and her twins Kirra and Keegan Murdock of Casper, WY; and great-grandchildren Hunter, Jack, Megan, Rebekah and Jordan.
Preceding her in death are her parents, husbands Clay Miller; Bish Bischoff; Walt Mifflin; brothers Donald and wife Roberta Harriss; Richard and wife Mary Ellen Harriss; and a granddaughter, Amber Miller.
Betty will be cremated.
The family would like to extend their deep appreciation for the staff at Garden Plaza of Valley View Independent Living of Boise and Harmony Hills Assisted Living and Memory Care of Meridian, ID for their kindness and excellent care of Betty in her later years.
