Adelene Miller, 93, longtime volunteer

Adelene Belber Miller, 93, a longtime volunteer, died July 31 at the hospice at Dunwoody Village in Newtown Square after a stroke. She had lived in Bala Cynwyd since 1951.

A memorial is planned for 7 p.m. Sept. 13 at Congregation Adath Israel, 250 N. Highland Ave., Merion.

Mrs. Miller was an honors graduate in the January 1937 class at Philadelphia Normal School, a teacher-training facility, said her son, Melvin, and she taught third and fourth grades for three years in Philadelphia public schools.

"She volunteered from the 1950s and 1960s to the 1990s," her son said. "It was a career for her. She didn't play golf. She didn't go to lunches. . . . If she had time [for volunteering], she went."

Mrs. Miller was president of the Sisterhood for Jewish Chaplaincy in Elkins Park, which provides chaplains for the hospitalized and imprisoned.

The chaplaincy recently honored her for 55 years of service.

Four times, her son said, she received volunteer awards from what is now the Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation.

She was president of the Women's Division of the American Technion Society of Greater Philadelphia and served on the national board of that organization, which supports Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Mrs. Miller also was a member of the board of trustees of the Federation of Jewish Agencies, and chaplaincy chairman of the Women's League for Conservative Judaism.

For 40 years, her son said, she volunteered at the Elwyn Institute, the Media organization that works with children and adults with disabilities.

Besides her son, Mrs. Miller is survived by a daughter, Linda Joehnk; two grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter. Her husband, Alfred, died in 1993.