Roberta Miller ’71

Bobby died Feb. 11, 1995 in Vancouver, B.C.   

Bobby came to Princeton, starting in our junior year, from Kansas City, Mo., where she was a graduate of Platte Valley High School. She majored in biology and then graduated from Washington University School of Medicine, becoming one of four women physicians in ’71. She did her residency in pathology at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City.  

After a position in Minneapolis, Bobby moved to British Columbia, where she became a staff pathologist, specializing in surgical pathology at Vancouver General Hospital. She married fellow pathologist, Dr. Whitey Thurlbeck, who died in 1998.  

She was most proud of the two books she co-authored with Dr. Thurlbeck: Diffuse Diseases of the Lung and Biopsy Interpretation of the Lung. Her advice from her medical school alumni survey: “Be sure of what you want to do.”  

The class extends belated condolences to her family and friends.