Gail Miller died peacefully in her sleep on Saturday, April 19, 2025.  She was almost 90 years old.

She is survived by her son, Elton Anglada Jr., her sister, Myrna Gwynn, and two grandchildren, Chance and Felicity Anglada.

Gail was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1935, the second child to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants. She was a “Depression Baby”, and this experience left its mark. She had lived through hard times, and to her dying day, she was careful with money, always shying away from extravagant purchases and expensive toys.

She graduated from Jamaica Heights High School and then went on obtain her bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature from Queens College. She was well-read and well-schooled, but never pushed her encyclopedic wealth of information on anyone.

On January 9, 1958, while working at the Café Reggio in the West Village, she met the love of her life, Elton Martin Anglada, and shortly thereafter, they hitchhiked to California and relocated in Pacific Grove. Exactly one year later, on January 9, 1959, they married. Eleven months later, in November of that same year, Gail gave birth to her only child, Elton Anglada Jr. The next ten years found Gail and her new family moving from one university town to another as her husband climbed his way up the academic ladder. In 1970, with her husband now teaching at Princeton University, Gail and her family settled in the tiny hamlet of Millstone. Here, for the next decade, Gail raised a son and took care of her husband with a quiet, understated elegance that mostly went unnoticed. She made everything look easy. But it wasn’t. These were crazy times. Gail’s home in Millstone quickly became a salon, a destination point for local artists, academics, and inteligencia.

Every night for a decade, a crowd of passionate hippies converged on Gail’s home to discuss politics, listen to rock ‘n’ roll, and smoke dope. And every night, Gail would take a head count at dinnertime and make a fabulous meal for everyone. She was an amazing cook. And like everything she did, Gail made cooking look easy. Effortless.

And, as if steering the Anglada family through the 70’s wasn’t enough to keep her busy, Gail decided to run for and ultimately became, the Mayor of Millstone. Gail didn’t scream her politics on facebook, (she was much too elegant for that), but she passionately advocated for and supported liberal left-wing politics. After her divorce, Gail sold the house in Millstone and relocated to a tiny hunting cabin on Sourland Mountain, just outside of Hopewell, where she lived out her remaining years, entertaining friends and walking her pug. Gail Miller was a Beatnik in the 50’s who morphed into a hippie in the 60’s, and embodied what it means to be labeled as such. Both the Beatniks and the Hippies were lucky to have her; she did right by them.

Those who were in her circle knew Gail to be a kind, funny person, a loyal and forgiving friend, and an honest and industrious person.  We are all better off for her time here. She will be sorely missed.”

A life celebration service will be held on Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. at the family home.

All arrangements are under the care and direction of Wright & Ford Family Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 38 State Highway 31, Flemington, NJ.

You are encouraged to visit Gail’s permanent life celebration site at www.wrightfamily.com to light a candle of hope, leave messages of condolences, share words of words of comfort and recollection, and post photographs of her life.

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Wright & Ford, your local family owned and operated “Life Celebration Home”

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