81-year-old woman achieves sky-dive goal

Jan and Dick Miller retired from their jobs in Arizona in 2003. For the next few years, they lived in Tekamah and wintered in Arizona. They made their home in Superior in 2010 but continued to winter in Arizona. Superior became their full-time home in 2014. Their plan was to travel to as many places as possible and to visit their family as much as possible.

Jan's husband Dick died a few years after they moved to Superior. During this time Jan made her own personal Bucket List. It's not your ordinary bucket list for retirement years. It's a bucket list you would figure an individual would have in their younger years. Younger years like in her 40s, 50s or even 60s. Her bucket list consisted of parasailing, zip lining, a hot air balloon ride, sky diving and traveling. As of this month Jan has fulfilled her bucket list.

Anyone who knows Jan realizes she is a young 81-year-old woman. She's not one to sit around and relax. She's always on the move.

Jan went para sailing on a sandy beach in Mexico in 1994. Then in 2019

she went to Kentucky for an Arch Encounter retreat and fulfilled her zip

lining ambition. The hot air balloon ride during Thanksgiving was in Nevada in 2019.

The last and most exciting adventure of all on her bucket list was the sky diving trip a few weeks ago. Michelle, her daughter, and Rick, her son, planned it for her trip to Washington state Labor Day weekend. Miller said, "I wasn't scared or nervous but said a prayer as I slid closer to the door of the aircraft."

Her prayer was, "It will be good either way, if I make it or not."

After the exhilarating dive and smooth landing, Jan said she "would do it again but not right away." That was only because she didn't have time

during her stay to do it again.

"Now," she said, "it's time to make another bucket list." Miller said, family is first and she will visit them as often as possible. It was said, "You've never been a lion tamer." She replied, "No, I haven't done that."