She was the daughter of Donald Miller and his wife, Annie Maria (née Lefevre).

From 1924, she attended Otago Girls' High School for two years.

[2] Miller competed in two events at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.

[2] She worked at Chilton House School in Lower Hutt as sports and physical culture mistress.

[4] On 25 May 1940, she married Kenneth Albert "Ken" McFarlane at Wanganui's St Paul's Presbyterian Church.