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Submitted: 12/29/22 • Approved: 1/5/23 • Last Updated: 1/8/23 • R1462995-G1462995-S3
October 30, 1941 - August 15, 2019
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Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Saturday, August 17, 2019
ROGERS - Myra Miles Moran, 77, of Rogers, Ark., passed away Aug. 15, 2019, at her home. She was born Oct. 30, 1941, in Omaha, Neb., as the daughter of the late Edward and Virginia Hoover Miles.
She graduated with a bachelors degree in history an political science from the University of Arkansas in Little Rock.
Myra with the editor of the State Senate Journal for many legislative sessions in Little Rock between 1971 and 2003. She was also the coordinator for the Center for Arkansas Studies at UALR (where it is was founded.)
Myra was also the owner and operator of Trolley Line Bookstore in Little Rock and Rogers from 1985 to 2018. She was also a committee-woman on the Rogers Planning Commission with her focus being on downtown Rogers development.
Myra loved books, and she would channel this love by organizing and leading vintage book tours of the United Kingdom on several occasions. Her other love was politics, and was extremely active in Democratic Party functions in both central and Northwest Arkansas.
She is survived by her husband Donald Pat Moran of the home; sons Jon Moran of Rogers and Andrew Moran of Fayetteville; daughters Erin Waddington of Atlanta and Dorinda Fox of Orlando; brothers Jerry Miles, Joseph Miles and Jimmy Miles of Omaha; sister Linda Miles of Omaha; grandchildren Jennifer Hennelly of Atlanta, Molly and Tyler Fox of Orlando, Ashlyn Gregory and Brooklyn Moran of Fayetteville and Miles Moran of Rogers.
Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, at the Benton County Funeral Home, 306 N. Fourth St., Rogers, Ark. A celebration of Myra's life will follow at the Rogers Chamber of Commerce Office, 317 W. Walnut St. in Rogers, Ark. Condolences can be made at www.bentoncountyfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers, the family ask donations be made in Myra's name to the Rogers Arkansas Public Library, 711 S. Dixieland Road, Rogers, Ark., 72758, (479) 621-1152.
Contributed on 12/29/22 by judyfrog
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