Henrietta (Farrand) Tuck-Miller

Birth Date: December 15, 1922

Death Date: August 1, 2011

Age at Death: 88

Marriages

James Miller

Charles Stuart Tuck - March 8, 1943

aboard the USS Charles Carroll in Norfolk, Virginia; died in 1983

Burial Details

Obituaries

Vail Daily page A12 - August 4, 2011

Henrietta Farrand Tuck-Miller of Gulf Breeze, Fla., passed away Monday at the age of 88.

Henrietta was born the youngest of seven children on Dec. 15, 1922, in Elizabeth, N.J., to Henry Carroll Farrand and Blanche Ogden Nixon. In the summer of 1942, she met the first love of her life, U.S. Navy Ensign Charles Stuart Tuck at Hampton Beach, N.H. They were married March 8, 1943 aboard the USS Charles Carroll in Norfolk, Va.

Henrietta was a gifted musician, studied music in New York City and enjoyed a distinguished career as a classical soprano performing soloist roles in the “Messiah,” Gershwin's “Porgy and Bess,” and numerous light opera while raising six children. After 40 years of marriage, Mrs. Tuck-Miller was preceded in death by Charles Tuck. She met her second love, husband James Miller, and took up skiing while working at the Beaver Creek Ski School. After four years and a new life with friends in Vail, Jim also passed away, so she moved to Gulf Breeze to be with three of her children.

She is survived by her six children, Henri (Tom) Stone, of Gypsum, Susan (Doug) Hadden, of Gulf Breeze, Charles (Jeanette) Tuck, of Miami, Alana Tuck-Shaw, of Gulf Breeze, Jim (Marian) Tuck, of Gulf Breeze, and Pete (Cindy) Tuck of Durango. She is also survived by 15 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Her gift to all of us was a great love of music, an unshakeable ethical foundation, a sense of right and wrong to guide our lives, an overwhelming legacy of pride and love for the United States of America and the U.S. military who serve us. She was the mother who taught what Ronald Reagan believed when he said, “Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.”

Our family would like to thank the staffs of The Courtyards in Gulf Breeze and The Specialty Center in Pensacola, Fla., for their kind, loving care of our mom in her final years.

A memorial service will be held at 1p.m. Monday at Roselawn Funeral Home in Gulf Breeze with burial following at 3 p.m. at Barrancas National Cemetery, NAS Pensacola. Visitation will be from 12-1 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

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