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A photo of a live oak is a reminder of Felecie Miller's Louisiana home while she stays at New Horizons Limestone hospice. Felecie and husband Charles Miller have been in Gainesville for almost six years after she fell ill during a visit with her son. Felecie Miller lives at a nursing home where she is never alone; her husband is by her side each day, and Hospice of Northeast Georgia Medical Center visits two to three times a week.

Originally from Louisiana, Felecie Miller was a school teacher who taught math and English in Louisiana for 36 years.

 

 

For almost six years, Charles Miller has traveled from his son’s house in Gainesville to New Horizons Limestone to take care of his 93-year-old wife.

 

 

“We haven’t been able to go home,” he said. “I stay at my son’s house at night and I spend all my days here.”

 

 

In the past, the Millers would travel to visit their son from Louisiana about three times a year.

 

 

Charles Miller recalls one visit. “We came for a 10-day visit, (Felecie Miller) got very sick and we had to take her to the hospital,” he said.

 

 

By Amanda Head

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