Miriam G. Storck, age 93, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, April 16, 2020, at Windsor Park Covenant Living Community in Carol Stream, Illinois.  She was born December 7, 1926 in Duluth, Minnesota to Chalvar and Birdie Gabriel.

During Miriam's childhood in Superior Wisconsin and Duluth Minnesota, her father was a Presbyterian minister and her mother resourcefully managed the household to keep Miriam and her brothers Earl and David fed and clothed through the hardships of the Great Depression. On Miriam's 15 ^th birthday, Pearl Harbor was attacked and made her birthday connected with the "day of infamy" connected for the rest of her life.

Miriam graduated from Denfeld High School in Duluth Minnesota in 1945. She faithfully attended her class reunions for 60 years. Miriam went to Wheaton College in the fall of 1945 but only completed two years since she ran out of funds and had to drop out to work as a telephone operator. In 1963 at the age of 36 she re-started her Wheaton education part-time and graduated with her bachelors in elementary education in 1968.

Miriam was married to Robert Storck, a WW2 veteran and long-time Wheaton resident, on September 20, 1952. They lived in Glen Ellyn and Wheaton for the rest of their lives. Miriam considered the Chicago area her adopted home but always remembered her roots in Minnesota.

Miriam and Robert had two daughters, Mary, born in 1955, and Nancy, born in 1958. With a one-acre yard on Oak Street in Glen Ellyn, they had a big garden, grape vines, raspberry bushes and apple trees. The summers and falls were spent with Miriam and her daughters canning pickles and tomatoes, freezing corn and green beans, making applesauce and grape juice, raspberry jam, and much more. In 1965-66 Miriam and Robert bought a vacant lot on Glencoe Street Wheaton and designed a custom-built house, and made another large garden. Miriam taught second grade in the Wheaton school district for some years and then worked as a secretary for a law firm. After her husband Robert passed away in 1994, Miriam did both tourist and short term missions travel, which took her to Mali, West Africa multiple times where her daughter Mary worked, plus to all seven continents. She saw tigers in the wild in India and penguins in Antartica. She was also active at Glen Ellyn Covenant Church for over 60 years, and the Missions Committee was her special interest.

She is survived by two daughters, Mary (Scott) Crickmore of Carol Stream IL,  and Nancy (Christopher) Bucca of Riva, MD;  Her grandchildren are Susan Crickmore Williams, Justin Bucca, Angelina Bucca Olsen, Daniel Crickmore, Nadine Bucca, and Maria Bucca. Her great-grandchildren are Josiah Olsen, Luke Olsen, and Bryan Williams

She is also survived by her brother David Gabriel of Big Fork Minnesota.

She was preceded in death by her husband Robert who died in 1994, and her brother Earl Gabriel who died in 2016.

A private burial will be held at Wheaton Cemetery. A memorial service to celebrate Miriam's life will be held in the future.

In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be directed to Glen Ellyn Evangelical Covenant Church .

Family and friends may sign a guest book at here . For more information, please call Hultgren Funeral Home at 630-668-0027.