FAMILY OWNED AND OPERATED FUNERAL HOMES SINCE 1881
| Rose Marie Miller |
| December 23, 1924 - March 26, 2026 |
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Public Events and LocationsVisitation - Monday, April 13, 2026, 9:30 to 10:20 AM at Covenant Church, DoylestownFuneral Service - Monday, April 13, 2026, 10:30 AM at Covenant Church, Doylestown Graveside Service - Monday, April 13, 2026, 12:30 PM at Mechanicsville Cemetery, Mechanicsville |
ContactsFuneral Home - Wetzel and Son Funeral Home - 501 Easton Road, Willow Grove, PA 19090 - 215-659-0911 - Map |
| Clergy - Covenant Church - 4000 Route 202, Doylestown, PA 18902 - 267-880-3713 - Map |
| Cemetery - Mechanicsville Cemetery - 3432 Durham Road, Mechanicsville, PA 18934 - 215-794-8446 - Map |
| Family Florist - Penny’s by Plaza Flowers - 263 North Keswick Avenue, Glenside, PA 19038 - 215-884-9130 - Map |
| Donation - SeeJesus, Bethesda General Fund, Gabriel’s Gladiators (checks to Gabriel Gladiators) - 415 Walnut Street, Jenkintown, PA 19046 - 215-460-1050 - Map |
"Where there is faith, there is love;
where there is love, there is peace;
where there is peace, there is blessing;
where there is blessing, there is God;
where God is, there is no need."
Rose Marie was born December 23, 1924, to German immigrants, Annamarie (née Bruit) and Lorenz Carlsen in San Francisco, CA. She was a star student, both at school and in the local Presbyterian church. Rose Marie began her adult journey early in life as she worked to pay her own college tuition and assisted her father in caring for her mother who had mental health struggles and her sister with special needs. Despite these challenges, she won awards on the swim team at the University of California Berkeley and earned a degree in physical education. She also got a degree at Biola that ignited her life-long love of the Bible.
Rose Marie met Jack Miller (C. John Miller) through the student ministry at an Orthodox Presbyterian church in San Francisco. Jack won Rose Marie’s heart when he quoted “she walks in beauty like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.” They loved to read books—especially the Bible and Shakespeare—talk theology, and pray together.
They married in 1950 and while Jack finished college, they started their family. Their first four children were born in four years, with their fifth child arriving five years later. Rose Marie often said that those were simpler times when rent was $20 a month, university tuition $40 for the year, and babies could be stashed in a dresser drawer.
Rose Marie applied her considerable intellectual and people skills to support Jack’s academic studies and early pastoral ministry. She writes in a letter to her mother, “I need to sign off now, as I need to do research for Jack’s paper.” Jack taught school, worked on his doctorate, and became the pastor of a small church in Stockton, CA.
In 1964, Jack and Rose Marie moved their family to the East Coast for Jack to become a professor at Westminster Theological Seminary in the Philadelphia area. Jack and Rose Marie’s spiritual leadership took root and grew in the tiny Mechanicsville Chapel, the church that Jack pastored along with his work at seminary.
Rose Marie struggled with her role as the wife of a pastor and gifted us with a book describing her journey from depression and doubt to a life of joy in From Fear to Freedom: Living as Sons and Daughters of God. She continued to share her life journey in Nothing Is Impossible with God and coauthored Gospel-Centered Parenting.
In 1973 they started a prayer meeting in their home in Jenkintown, PA, that became New Life
Presbyterian Church. Jack and Rose Marie talked often of their weakness and their need to rely on the power of prayer. From that prayer meeting grew a network of churches and also a mission agency, Serge, now with over 300 missionaries serving around the world.
When Jack died in Spain in 1996, Rose Marie’s world was forever changed. She wanted to be in heaven with Jack, but God had other plans. God called her to a new chapter in her life as a Serge missionary to the South Asian population in London with her daughter, Keren, and her son-in-law, Bob Heppe who are also Serge missionaries in London.
Rose Marie would spend the next thirty years in London solidifying her understanding of grace,
forgiveness, and strength found in weakness. In London, and eventually all over the world, she taught the Bible and shared the gospel that changed her life. She was always telling others about her weakness and need for prayer and inviting all she met—whether cleaner or taxi driver—to experience the life-changing love of Jesus Christ.
As she grew older and weaker, her faith, love, and hope in Jesus grew stronger and brighter. At the age of 101 she was still meeting with people, texting many people every day, and sharing the faith that had changed her from a woman bound by fear to one who was free to love.
Her final gifts to us are her children, Roseann Trott (James), Ruth Correnti (Rev. James), Paul Miller (Jill), Barbara Juliani (Rev. Angelo) and Keren Heppe (Rev. Robert), 24 grandchildren, 62
great-grandchildren, and the many who have grown in faith through her gospel-centered warm welcome and spiritual mothering.
In her heavenly home, she joins her partner in faith, prayer, and ministry, Dr. Jack Miller, parents, Lorenz and Annamarie Carlsen, sister, Barbara, and three predeceased grandchildren, Benjamin Miller, Gabriel Juliani, and Ashley Miller Frearson. Soon the rest of us will be gathered with her.
Her final resting place will be located next to her husband in Mechanicsville Cemetery behind the chapel where their ministries began.
Funeral Service:
Monday, April 13, 2026
Covenant Church • 4000 US-202, Doylestown, PA 18902
Family Visitation: 9:30 AM • Service: 10:30 AM
Burial immediately following • Reception to follow • All are welcome
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to SeeJesus, Bethesda General Fund, Gabriel’s Gladiators (checks to Gabriel Gladiators, 415 Walnut St., Jenkintown, PA 19046), or to Ethan, Rose Marie’s missionary grandson (donor #54427, reach out to family for sending organization details).
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where there is love, there is peace;
where there is peace, there is blessing;
where there is blessing, there is God;
where God is, there is no need."
Rose Marie was born December 23, 1924, to German immigrants, Annamarie (née Bruit) and Lorenz Carlsen in San Francisco, CA. She was a star student, both at school and in the local Presbyterian church. Rose Marie began her adult journey early in life as she worked to pay her own college tuition and assisted her father in caring for her mother who had mental health struggles and her sister with special needs. Despite these challenges, she won awards on the swim team at the University of California Berkeley and earned a degree in physical education. She also got a degree at Biola that ignited her life-long love of the Bible.
Rose Marie met Jack Miller (C. John Miller) through the student ministry at an Orthodox Presbyterian church in San Francisco. Jack won Rose Marie’s heart when he quoted “she walks in beauty like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.” They loved to read books—especially the Bible and Shakespeare—talk theology, and pray together.
They married in 1950 and while Jack finished college, they started their family. Their first four children were born in four years, with their fifth child arriving five years later. Rose Marie often said that those were simpler times when rent was $20 a month, university tuition $40 for the year, and babies could be stashed in a dresser drawer.
Rose Marie applied her considerable intellectual and people skills to support Jack’s academic studies and early pastoral ministry. She writes in a letter to her mother, “I need to sign off now, as I need to do research for Jack’s paper.” Jack taught school, worked on his doctorate, and became the pastor of a small church in Stockton, CA.
In 1964, Jack and Rose Marie moved their family to the East Coast for Jack to become a professor at Westminster Theological Seminary in the Philadelphia area. Jack and Rose Marie’s spiritual leadership took root and grew in the tiny Mechanicsville Chapel, the church that Jack pastored along with his work at seminary.
Rose Marie struggled with her role as the wife of a pastor and gifted us with a book describing her journey from depression and doubt to a life of joy in From Fear to Freedom: Living as Sons and Daughters of God. She continued to share her life journey in Nothing Is Impossible with God and coauthored Gospel-Centered Parenting.
In 1973 they started a prayer meeting in their home in Jenkintown, PA, that became New Life
Presbyterian Church. Jack and Rose Marie talked often of their weakness and their need to rely on the power of prayer. From that prayer meeting grew a network of churches and also a mission agency, Serge, now with over 300 missionaries serving around the world.
When Jack died in Spain in 1996, Rose Marie’s world was forever changed. She wanted to be in heaven with Jack, but God had other plans. God called her to a new chapter in her life as a Serge missionary to the South Asian population in London with her daughter, Keren, and her son-in-law, Bob Heppe who are also Serge missionaries in London.
Rose Marie would spend the next thirty years in London solidifying her understanding of grace,
forgiveness, and strength found in weakness. In London, and eventually all over the world, she taught the Bible and shared the gospel that changed her life. She was always telling others about her weakness and need for prayer and inviting all she met—whether cleaner or taxi driver—to experience the life-changing love of Jesus Christ.
As she grew older and weaker, her faith, love, and hope in Jesus grew stronger and brighter. At the age of 101 she was still meeting with people, texting many people every day, and sharing the faith that had changed her from a woman bound by fear to one who was free to love.
Her final gifts to us are her children, Roseann Trott (James), Ruth Correnti (Rev. James), Paul Miller (Jill), Barbara Juliani (Rev. Angelo) and Keren Heppe (Rev. Robert), 24 grandchildren, 62
great-grandchildren, and the many who have grown in faith through her gospel-centered warm welcome and spiritual mothering.
In her heavenly home, she joins her partner in faith, prayer, and ministry, Dr. Jack Miller, parents, Lorenz and Annamarie Carlsen, sister, Barbara, and three predeceased grandchildren, Benjamin Miller, Gabriel Juliani, and Ashley Miller Frearson. Soon the rest of us will be gathered with her.
Her final resting place will be located next to her husband in Mechanicsville Cemetery behind the chapel where their ministries began.
Funeral Service:
Monday, April 13, 2026
Covenant Church • 4000 US-202, Doylestown, PA 18902
Family Visitation: 9:30 AM • Service: 10:30 AM
Burial immediately following • Reception to follow • All are welcome
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to SeeJesus, Bethesda General Fund, Gabriel’s Gladiators (checks to Gabriel Gladiators, 415 Walnut St., Jenkintown, PA 19046), or to Ethan, Rose Marie’s missionary grandson (donor #54427, reach out to family for sending organization details).
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