Olive May Miller ²

   FamilySearch ID: GCDY-GL3.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Newspaper: Sunbury American, 20 Jul 1906, Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. ¹ SHAMOKIN WEDDING The culmination of a pretty romance was reached at Shamokin on Thursday when Miss Olive May Miller and Rev. J. Frank Bucher, of Milton, were married, at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Martha Miller. Rev O. B. Schneider, of St. John's Reformed church, officiated. After a short visit to Milton the newly married couple will leave for. San Fran01500, from where they will sail for China, where Mr.
Bucher has been appointed a missionary of the Reformed church.
Miss Miller is a daughter of the late Francis Miller and is a graduate of the Shamobin High school. Rev. Bucher was recently graduated from the Reformed Theological Seminary, at Lancaster. Several years ago, while the local pastor was on his vacation, Rev. Bucher served as pastor at Shamokin, and it was at this time that he met and fell in love with Miss Miller.

2. Residence: on 27 Apr 1907 in Yochow, , Hunan, CHN. ⁴

3. Residence: on 9 Feb 1909 in Yochow, , Hunan, CHN. ⁵

4. Census in 1910 in Shamokin, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States of America. ⁶ The 1910 census recorded owning a home at 6 East Sunbury Street: Martha Miller, music teacher, 51, living with son Claude, 16; son Roland, 13; daughter Ruth, 13; son-in-law Frank Bucher, minister in church, 31, with Martha's daughter Olive, 27; daughters Adaline W. Bucher, 2 and Martha Bucher, 1. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania, except Adaline and Martha Bucher who were born in China.

5. Residence: on 27 Jul 1912 in Chenzhou , Hunan, CHN. ⁷

6. Residence: on 26 Jul 1914 in Chenzhou , Hunan, CHN. ⁸

7. Residence: on 19 Jan 1918 in Chenzhou , Hunan, CHN. ⁹

8. Residence: on 17 Jan 1921 in Chenzhou , Hunan, CHN. ¹⁰

9. S.S. President McKinley sailing from Shanghai China 26 Jun 1927 arriving Seattle WA 10 Jul 1927 on 10 Jul 1927 in Seattle, King, WA. ¹¹ Bucher J Frank age 48 born Milton PA 6/17/78
Bucher Olive M age 44 born Shamokin PA 3/6/83
Bucher Olive M age 15 born Shamokin PA 3/9/11
Bucher Jonas F age 13 born Kuling China 7/27/12
Bucher Mary V age 11 born Kuling China 6/26/14
Bucher Emma E. age 8 born Schchonfu China 1/19/18
Bucher John R age 2 born Schchonfu China 10/6/23.

10. Census in 1930 in Lancaster, Lancaster, PA. ¹² The 1930 census recorded renting for $45 a month at 735 Marietta Avenue: Olive M. Bucher, 47, living with daughters Adeline W., assistant editor for newspaper, 23; Martha A., 21; Olive M., 19; son J. Frank, 17; daughter Emma E., 12; and son John R., 6. All the children were born in China except Olive, who was born in Pennsylvania as were their parents.

11. Obituary: Courier-Post on 26 Jan 1986 in Camden, Camden, NJ. ¹³ Olive Bucher, 102, ex-missionary
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Olive M. Bucher, 102, of Medford, a retired missionary and school teacher, died yesterday in Valley Manor Nursing Center, Coopersburg, Pa. Mrs. Bucher lived on Brookside Drive in Birchwood Lakes and was born in Shamokin, Pa.
She was a former English teacher and missionary throughout China from 1906 to 1940. In the early years of her missionary work, she was affiliated with the Reformed Church, now the United Church of Christ. She served in China with her late missionary husband, the Rev. Dr. J. Franklin Bucher, who was the principal of a boys' school in Hunan Province. She is survived by four daughters, Martha and Mrs. Olive Wideman, both of Medford; Mrs. Adeline Werner of Rochester, N.Y., and Emeline Ewald of Allentown; two sons, J. Franklin of Eugene, Ore., and the Rev. John R. of Pittsburgh; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bausman Memorial United Church of Christ, Penn and Trent avenues, Wyomissing, Pa., where friends may call at 10 a.m.
Burial will be in the Greenwood Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa.
Services are under the direction of Trexler Funeral Home, Inc., 1625 Highland St., Allentown.
"She had all kinds of things happen to her," said her daughter, Martha, who was one of eight children born in China. "They were shipwrecked in Honolulu on the way and met the last queen of Hawaii. Once she saw children in China going through the garbage on the street. She and a friend used their own funds and started a rice kitchen that saved 50 children.
"Twice they escaped down rivers in small boats, once during the 1911 revolution and later to flee the Communists," her daughter recalled.
In a 1983 interview when she turned 100, Mrs. Bucher told the Courier-Post, "Clean living has always been important to me .
I haven't thought about what I did. I just ate simple food and got a good night's sleep."
Mrs. Bucher, who started painting when she was 75 and who wrote a 567-page manuscript of her life which is unpublished, was described by her daughter as "very creative, very much interested in her children and in people and was (the) kind of person who could brighten things up when they got bad and who could withstand a great deal of stress."

Olive married Rev. Jonas Franklin Bucher Jr, son of Jonas Franklin Bucher Sr. and Adeline Wolfe, on 12 Jul 1906 in Shamokin, Northumberland, PA.¹ (Rev. Jonas Franklin Bucher Jr was born on 17 Jun 1878 in Milton, Northumberland, PA,¹⁴ died on 3 Aug 1947 in Egg Harbor City, Atlantic, NJ ^{14 15} and was buried on 9 Aug 1947 in Lancaster: Greenwood Cemetery, Lancaster, PA ¹⁶.)