Jodi Miller-Pfaff passed away on April 9, 2022, in her Silverton, Oregon home after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Jodi was born in Salem, Oregon on September 25, 1947. She grew up in Independence, Oregon and graduated from Central High School. She married Neil Everett Miller in 1966 and was married for 27 years until he passed away. They raised their two children Beth and Scott in the Milwaukie/Gladstone area. Jodi was a wonderful wife and mother who was at every game, concert and play cheering her children on.

Jodi was a hard worker. She wanted to make a better life for her family and usually had at least two jobs. She worked as a telephone operator, ran the front of a busy florist in Portland, managed a Hallmark card store, and then worked in the dental and medical fields as an office manager. She also sold Tupperware and was a favorite Avon lady for several years in the 1980s. She loved to visit her customers to chat and catch up on the latest gossip. Everyone loved her at every job she had. She always had a smile on her face.

Jodi always kept a beautiful home. She had great taste and people always raved over her house and the way it was decorated. She loved antiques and was a collector of many things including Golden Books, stamps, flower frogs and vintage Santas. She was an avid reader, she read at least a novel a week and loved her home decorating magazines. She also volunteered at the local grade school to read with the children. She loved to tend to her yard and flower garden. Her yard has always been one of the best in the neighborhood. She had beautiful flowers and trees and had enjoyed growing vegetables in her Silverton backyard. She said she got her green thumb from her beloved Grandma Edie. She loved music, concerts, antiquing, and the occasional bingo night with friends.

Jodi reunited with an old classmate, Norm Pfaff at a high school reunion planning committee in 1995. They married and built their dream log home in Bend, Oregon. They moved to Silverton in 2018 to downsize and enjoy retirement. They enjoyed trips to Cabo, their cabin in Detroit Lake and their place at Nye Beach near Newport. They also shared a Rick Steves dream trip to Europe in 2017 visiting Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and her favorite, Paris, France. She also went on a beautiful bucket list trip to Hawaii with her daughter Beth last September. Jodi had many friends, old ones from her life when her kids were young and many new friends that she made in Silverton. She cherished her friends and was loved by so many. She loved life and was her smart, sassy, vivacious self until the end. She will be missed so much and remembered forever.

She is survived by her husband, Norm Pfaff and four children, Beth Weber, Scott Miller, and his wife Zaira, Brian Pfaff and his wife Melissa and Cadi Brown and her husband Daron. She had 12 grandchildren:  Brian, Austin, Lillian, Kendall, Francisco, Zaid, Alex, Chase, Charlotte, John, Zander, and Heath.

A memorial will be held at Detroit Lake to celebrate her life this summer. Donations to the Pancreatic Cancer Society can be made at pancan.org/donate.