Arline "Cissie" Miller Edwards

Arline Miller was born, along with her twin brother, William Alton, on April 13, 1925, in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, N.C. She married William Ralph Edwards and they had two children, David and Dee Ann, who live in North Carolina. Cissie died of ovarian cancer on Feb. 4, 1993, leaving behind a grieving husband, two children and a twin brother who never felt quite the same about life again.

Young Cissie was a beauty. Here she is in 1948 at Myrtle Beach, S.C., a favorite family vacation spot.

Cissie, left, with her sister Marilyn, second from right, and two friends.

Cissie, lovely and fashionable, as always...

... and, again.

On Nov. 23, 1955, she married Bill Edwards, a man as charming, kind and gracious as herself.

Cissie and Bill with niece Pam Miller (the keeper of this scrapblog) in Minnesota in 1985.


Bill and Cissie with Pam again at her Maple Grove, Minn., home in September 1990. Also pictured was Pam's mom, Alverna Sprick Miller, and Pam's son, Noah Miller Johnson.

Bill and Cissie with niece Cathy Miller in September 1991. Cissie was already courageously fighting the cancer that would take her life about a year and a half later.

In the summer of 1993, Alverna, Virginia, Norma and Brother visited Cissie's grave at Forsyth Memorial Park in Winston-Salem, N.C.

In November 2011, I visited Cissie and Bill Edwards' graves with their kids, my first cousins, Dee Ann Edwards and David Edwards. They were great parents, and a great uncle and aunt, too.