Butte High School reunion LMS

Leone Miller was raised in Butte, Montana. She graduated from Butte High and then went on to attend college in Montana. She taught elementary school and music for ten years in Montana. In 1971, she and her husband Al Miller and children, Terri and Mark, moved to Eugene so that Al could attend college.
In 1974 they were called to being a ministry for abused teens, Hosanna Children's Center. They formed a board and eventually set up a day care center, a 9000 sq. ft. home for teens, and a home for unwed mothers. Leone was administrator for these programs and provided the secretarial, staff supervision, bookkeeping, fund raising and public relations for the work. She also led a children's choir for ten years, which supported the work by traveling around Oregon.
After 15 years, they left the work to their board and moved into other adventures. She has been active in several churches, serving as deaconess, education director, working on committees, leading music and singing in the choir. She has put on many very large Bible Schools and musicals. The last ten years she worked at the Eugene Mission in their office. She has been active in Rainbow Girls, Den mother for Cub Scouts, teaching Bible studies, and auxiliaries. She has been active in Self Help for Hard of Hearing People in Lane County and is presently president of that group. She has served on many committees in that organization, worked on fund raising and public relations and has spoken about the work many times. She also prepares the newsletter for them. Her greatest satisfaction comes from a booklet she helped to prepare, "Facing the Challenge, a Survivor's Manual for Hard of Hearing People." With the help of many others, this booklet has gone all over Oregon and to many other states. 42,000 copies have been printed.
Leone is a grandmother of 6. She just retired and hopes to do some writing as well as speaking to groups. (Including to schools about noise and hearing loss and to churches about what they can do to help the hard of hearing in their church). She will be working on a journal about Hosanna Children's Center and how it came about. She has had several articles published in the hearing and Christian areas.