Elaine Millard

Born November 1933, in Branaugh, Missouri, to Oscar and Ethel Pearl Greer passed peacefully, November 18th, 2023, in Anchorage, Alaska at age 90, with her oldest son Gary and his wife Ann by her side. Not long before she passed, all her boys were able to talk to her.

Mom graduated from High School and then lived with her sister Betty before moving to San Diego, California to be near her sister Jean (Faye) and brother Wayne. She soon followed Jean and brother in-law (Fred) to Fairbanks to help care for their first child (Pamela Sue).

In Fairbanks, she worked with George Rayburn at Wien Airlines and then followed him when he went to work at First National Bank of Alaska.

Elaine met her to-be husband Doug at a party thrown by Hugh and Alma Rumph. Dad almost wasn’t interested in her, as he thought that the baby she was carrying around at the party was her daughter turned out it was her niece, Pamela Sue! With that straightened out, they were married on September 1st, 1957. They built a house on Park Drive and raised three sons while living in Fairbanks. In the early 70s she went back to work at the bank for a while and was also a member of the Alaska Chapter of P.E.O (and no, she never did tell us what P.E.O. stood for). The family moved to Wasilla in 1976 after Wien permanently made Anchorage their main base. She and Doug moved to Anchorage in 2020, to live adjacent to their youngest son, and then moved to the Anchorage Pioneer Home in Anchorage in 2022, when Doug needed full time care.

Elaine, one of 11 surviving children, was preceded in death by her father, Oscar Warren, her mother Ethel Pearl (Stults), all of her brothers and sisters, and her husband, Douglas (2022). She is survived by her three sons - Gary (Ann), David (Jennifer), Curtis (Sharon), many grandchildren and great grandchildren (even one that shares her birthday), and a plethora of nephews and nieces including Pamela Sue.

All that knew her will remember her for her affection, playful sense of humor (sarcasm at its best), love for her family and, most of all, forever love and devotion for her husband of 65 years, Douglas.

We cry with joy knowing that she is resting in peace after a long, wonderful, well-lived life - She most assuredly was loved beyond measure.

An interment service is planned for mom and dad in Fairbanks, Alaska, on September 1st, 2024.