countyDutchess County Legislature
2024170
CONDOLENCE: LOIS MILLER
- Introduced
- October 14, 2024
- Latest action
- October 14, 2024
- Status
- ADOPTED
- District coverage
- scope: countywide
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DUTCHESS COUNTY LEGISLATURE
Condolence: Lois Miller
Resolution No. 2024170
The Dutchess County Legislature offers the following and moves its adoption:
WHEREAS, on September 11, 2024, the Dutchess County Legislature learned with great sadness and
regret of the recent death of Lois Miller at the age of 75, and
WHEREAS, Lois was born on November 30, 1948, in East Orange, New Jersey, to the late Richard and
Rita (Beirne) Gossweiler, and
WHEREAS, Lois graduated from Hannover Park High School and continued her education at Berkley
Secretarial School, and
WHEREAS, Lois married her husband of 54 years, William Miller, in 1970, and
WHEREAS, Lois dedicated her professional life to helping others as a Domestic Violence Outreach
Worker in the Special Victim's Bureau at the Dutchess County District Attorney's Office with the Dutchess
County Probation Department until her retirement in 2011, and
WHEREAS, after retirement, Lois volunteered as an Ambassador for the Walkway Over the Hudson
and gave her time generously to the Grace Smith House and Freedom Plains United Presbyterian Church where
she was an active member, and
WHEREAS, Lois is survived by her husband William, her daughters Melissa and Gretchen, her
grandchildren Megan, Christopher, Jeffrey, Jaiden, and Avery, her sisters Ann Rimbach and Jane Sweeney, and
many nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends, and
WHEREAS, Lois was predeceased by her parents Richard and Rita Gossweiler, and her brother
Richard Gossweiler, and
WHEREAS, Lois' passing will be mourned by her family, friends, and colleagues throughout Dutchess
County, now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that the Dutchess County Legislature, on behalf of all the people of Dutchess County,
does hereby extend its deepest sympathy and sincere condolences to the family and friends of the late Lois
Miller, and, be it further
RESOLVED, that the meeting of the Dutchess County Legislature be adjourned in memory of the late
Lois Miller.
STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF DUTCHESS
'This is to certify that I, the undersigned Clerk of the Legislature of the County of Durchess, have compared the foregoing resolution with the original resolution
now on file in the office of said clerk, and which was adopted by said legislacure on the 15% day of October 2024, and that the same is a true and correct transcript of said!
original resolution and of the whole thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREO!, I have hereunto sec my hand and seal of said Lepislature this hs
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IGHWAGER CLERK OF THELECISLATURE