Miss Millar, whose funeral service takes place in The Elms Chapel at 1pm on Monday, shifted to Tauranga in 1957, working for Inland Revenue and NAC before joining Bob Owens in the early days of his business empire based at the Port of Tauranga.
However, she spent most of her working life with Tim Dalton helping to run Dalton Antiques.
She was a Soroptimist, a world-wide service organisation for business and professional women who work to improve the lives of women and girls, and also spent 24 years as a member of the Tauranga Classics Leisure Marching Team.
Miss Millar's maternal grandmother was born in the fencible cottage and her surviving family suspect the photo may have sat above the cottage's fireplace.