Second Best Obit of the Week

Still think there's no connection between gay marriage and polygamy? Check out the obit in today's Washington Post (emphasis added):

Cheryl Jean Miller Naturalist

Cheryl Jean Miller, 49, a naturalist, died of ovarian cancer Dec. 9 at her home in Beltsville.

She worked for the Anacostia Watershed Society in 1996 and 1997 and spearheaded the Indian Creek Reforestation Project, which returns native plants to the Anacostia watershed. In 1994, she revitalized and supervised the bluebird recovery project at the Agricultural Research Services Center in Beltsville.

Ms. Miller, an accomplished tracker, was co-founder of the Mid-Atlantic Primitive Skills group in 1997. She became involved with the plant spirit medicine community of the Huichol Indians of Mexico and helped raise funds for the Blue Deer Center, a retreat in New York's Catskill Mountains that is devoted to the customs of the Huichol.

Ms. Miller, who was born in Takoma Park, grew up in Rockville and graduated from Wheaton High School in 1973. She received an associate's degree from Montgomery College in medical laboratory technology in 1975 and a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Maryland in 1988. She was working toward a master's degree in landscape architecture at the time of her cancer diagnosis.

She worked as a medical laboratory technician at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda from 1975 until 1989, when she became northeast regional sales manager for Murex Diagnostics, a job she held until 1995.

She received a black belt in tang soo do, a Korean martial art.

Survivors include her lifetime partners, Marcia and Robert Van Horn of Beltsville; and two brothers, Gary P. Miller of Arlington and Mark S. Miller of Mount Airy.

I guess it "takes a villiage."