Pam embraced a lifelong passion for helping others at an early age, volunteering to work with senior citizens as a Candy Striper at the Boca Raton Hospital Convalescent Center. She soon found her true calling in working with children. After teaching at the Little Red School House, she turned to the medical profession, working first as a nursing assistant at Kaiser Permanente and then as a registered nurse, focusing on pediatrics at Duke University Hospital, University of North Carolina Hospital, and as a travel nurse in Texas and Colorado.
She became an adopted Mother 27 years ago, when she entered into the lives of Jenasis Rogers, Jacquelynn Clark, and Jessica Harnishfeger. They were children who grew up in poverty, abuse, and neglect, in desperate need for light in the darkness. Pam ministered and loved them through life's journey. God called Pam to be a Mother, not in the conventional sense, but in the spiritual. She has made all the difference.
While her heart was always close to home, she had a wanderer's curiosity and love of new places and people. She did missionary work in Guatemala, traveled to places as diverse as Korea and Italy, and "road tripped" throughout the United States with family and old friends, making new friends wherever she went. Her smile, enthusiasm, endless movie quotes, and love of life were infectious and show themselves in the pictures she took, in the lives that she touched, and the outpouring of love and visits she received over her final months.
Pam is survived by her sister and two brothers: Kimberly Jo, Daniel J., and Timothy J. Miner and wife Sun; adopted daughter Jacquelynn; cousins Beverly Blomquist and husband Joe, Chris Moss and wife Valrie, Jeff Moss and wife Diane; and sister-in-law Sun Miner and Judy Holmes.
Eight nieces/nephews: Shannon, Kyle, Danielle, Joe, and Matt Miner, Jamie (Ema） Boyd, and Tina Winn; great nieces/nephews, Brianna and Dylan Miner; Jacelyn and Noah Boyd, Liam Winn, along with several other nieces, nephews, cousins, and the plethora of adoptees by the Miner clan!
She was preceded in death by her parents, Peggy Joyce Frazier Miner and Alan Joseph “Joe” Miner; grandmother Annie E. Frazier, aunt Ada F. Moss,
