SEATTLE — Erna Wahl Miller, longtime private secretary to the late Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson, has died in Washington, D.C. She was 82.
Miller apparently suffered a stroke and died Tuesday in the townhouse she shared with her husband, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Saturday.
Miller was born in Bjung, Norway, on June 14, 1921. Her family emigrated to Everett the next year, where her mother was a friend of Jackson’s mother.
After graduating from Everett High School and studying two years at Washington State University, Miller worked in the Snohomish County treasurer’s office.
Miller began working for Jackson in 1951. She returned to Everett in 1955 when her father became ill, and later worked in Olympia as administrative assistant to House Speaker John O’Brien, D-Seattle. She married in 1963 and returned to Washington, D.C. to work for Jackson.
She continued to work as private secretary to the powerful Democratic senator until his death in 1983.
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