NASHVILLE
Cora Louise Murphy Miller, 100, of Nashville passed away Monday, September 16, 2024 in Our Hospice in Columbus. She was born December 2, 1923 in Bloomington to Charles M. Murphy and Edna Mae Shady Murphy. The Murphy family moved to Brown County in 1930 and then to Nashville in 1932. She graduated from Nashville High School in April of 1941 and attended Indiana University for 2 years.
Cora worked as a nurse’s aid at Bartholomew County Hospital for 2 years during World War II. She married Herbert “Herb” J. Miller on May 27, 1945 while he was still in the Army Air Corps. She then worked in Miller’s Drug Store in Nashville for 15 years. In the early 50’s with husband Herb they started the Hilltop Game Bird Farm just south of Nashville where they raised and sold ring neck pheasants and quail, chicks, birds and eggs. They sold that business in 1959 and started the Bait Tackle and Feed store in Nashville later that year and sold the building and grounds in 1965. Cora and Herb were long time members of the Nashville United Methodist Church.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Herb in 2015 after 70 years of marriage; a brother, Earl Shady Murphy in 1936; a half-brother, Charles W. Murphy in 1986; two half sisters, Helen Marie (Murphy) Borno in 1994 and Marguerite Murphy Milam in 1996; a niece, Louise Borno Walker; and a niece in law, Patricia Borno. She is survived by several nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews; her caregivers, Bruce Taggart, Joanne Taggart, Marilyn Rudd (deceased), Melanie Garner; her helpers, Donna and Larry Borden, Shirley and Mark Dunn and Ann and Steve V. Miller.
There will be a private family burial. Arrangements are under the direction of Bond-Mitchell Funeral Home.
Online condolences may be left for the family at www.BondMitchellFuneralHome.com
