Grace Lurton Miller

Grace Lurton Miller peacefully passed due to cancer on January 8, 2023 at age 94 having lived a full life. An avid reader who loved to trade stocks, Grace enjoyed learning about her Mayflower roots. She lived in New York City for 35 years, where she was a writer and then a successful Merrill Lynch stock broker. In the boisterous male finance world, she was understated, gentle and successful. Retiring to Madison Connecticut, she met and married Douglas Miller, and they lived happily together for 18 years in Naples Florida until he passed in 2015. Grace was a caring woman who will be missed by family and friends.

Born in Minneapolis on March 26, 1928 to Helen Grace Leo and Douglas Lurton, Grace and her younger sister, Margaret Mary Lurton (Kahle) moved to Scarsdale New York in 1935 to be raised and schooled there. Grace then attended Abbot Academy in Andover Massachusetts and was graduated from Connecticut College in 1949 with a degree in Psychology. Grace moved to New York City working as a copywriter at Young & Rubicam for 8 years and was especially proud of writing a poem for a full page Johnson & Johnson’s campaign entitled “Baby’s world is a special place” which appeared in Redbook and McCall’s.

Grace next turned to Merrill Lynch in New York City, then San Francisco, and then back to New York to become a stock broker for 24 years retiring in 1993 at age 65 after 24 years.

Moving to a quieter home life in Madison Connecticut with her younger sister “Peg”, she read, gardened and generally tried to keep out of the way of the bothersome wild turkeys that had taken up residence nearby. This is where in 1997 Grace fell in love with and married the boy next door, and love of her life, a widower named Douglas Howard Miller. Grace was age 69.

In 2004 the happy couple moved to Naples Florida for 18 years until the time of Doug’s passing in 2015 at the tender age of 100.

Grace is survived by her nephew, Brewster Lurton Kahle, his wife Mary Austin, and their children, Caslon Reed Austin Kahle and Logan Quinn Austin Kahle all of San Francisco, as well as her cousin Joyce Sullivan of Somers, New York.

If you wish to make a donation in Grace's name, please donate to the Church below.

In person memorial Wednesday Jan 11, 11am eastern time, First Congregational Church of Naples, 6630 Immokalee Rd, Naples, FL 34119, 239-514-3500

Online memorial Sunday Jan 22, 5-6pm east coast time. Information: https://tinyurl.com/grace-memory