Olga ‘Ollie’ Miller
Olga ‘Ollie’ Miller, 1947-2025. Born in Brooklyn, she grew up in Bayside, Queens. She was known by most only as Ollie. She got her RN degree from Queens College, part of CUNY, at 17 years old as part of an experimental program designed to determine if nursing could be taught outside the hospital. She continued on at night to receive her bachelor’s degree at Adelphi University.
In 1969 she married Richard Miller, her husband of nearly 56 years. He always told people he married her because her maiden name was Shkutzko.
Ollie worked as a pediatric nurse and surgical floor nurse at North Shore University Hospital from 1966 to 1972. She then joined the Vocational Education Extension Board and taught licensed practical nurses until 1975.
Ollie then took a few years off to have Alison and Richard Jr. In about 1983, she began to substitute nurse in the Glen Cove City School system. In about 1989, Ollie became the school nurse at Robert M. Finley Middle School in Glen Cove. She retired in 2007 when Richard Jr.’s first son was born. Since Richard Jr. was living near Albany, and they were not going to do “bridges and tunnels” every weekend, they moved to Lake Placid, a two-hour drive to see the baby with no bridges, tunnels or tolls.
Ollie was well known around Lake Placid for her enjoyment of figure skating and volunteering for the Olympic Regional Development Authority in Lake Placid which operates the Olympic venues. She also took care of shut-in friends and neighbors with soups in winter and other foods and snacks, well known for bringing candy to all sorts of people as a “mood elevator.”
A funeral will be held at St. Eustace Episcopal Church in Lake Placid. Details will follow. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to worldfiguresport.org.