of Conway, AR
April 28, 1935 - April 19, 2025
Mildred Ann Waldrop Burks Childress Miller passed away on April 19, 2025 at Baptist Health Medical Center in Conway. She was 89.
Born on April 28, 1935 in Cleveland County, Arkansas to Floyd and Rhua Mae Waldrop. Mildred was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands, Floyd Lester Burks and John Childress; her brother, Charles Waldrop; her sister, Sybil Bullock and her beloved son, Wendell Burks. She is survived by her husband, Floyd Miller; her daughter, Tami Phillips and son-in-law, Andy Phillips; her nieces, Liz Causey, Regina Bottorff and Donna McFarland; her nephew, Larry Waldrop and a host of dear friends and extended family members.
She dedicated much of her professional life to caring for others as a registered nurse. She worked for many years in the emergency room and cardiac stepdown unit at JRMC, where colleagues respected her exceptional ability to start the trickiest IVs.
Friends and neighbors will remember her excellent Southern cooking as well as the beautiful flower gardens she grew for pleasure after spending years tending huge vegetable gardens. She leaves behind her excellent example of determination in the face of any obstacle and no-nonsense practicality.
Her memorial service will be held at 2:00 pm Saturday, May 3, 2025 at Chapel Hill Missionary Baptist Church in New Edinburg with Brother Dwayne Ashcraft officiating. Interment of ashes will take place in a private ceremony at a later time.