The US Socialite Who Gave Up Her Wealth, Left Her Family To Become A Nun

"She was kind of an unusual nun. She didn't sing very well. She was frequently late to her required duties around the convent," her son wrote.

A nun who took a vow of silence and solitude died Saturday at the age of 92 in the monastery where she spent the last three decades of her life. But before she became Sister Mary Joseph of the Trinity, she was socialite Ann Russell Miller of San Francisco - and her remarkable life has now been documented in a series of tweets by her son Mark Miller.  You might have guessed that she has not always been a nun. She grew up in San Francisco and Oregon and went to school in California and New York. She had a boyfriend. pic.twitter.com/YMzfHOw6hr By age 27 she had five kids. And then she had five more. A basketball team of each sex. Planned Parenthood she called it. She had a million and one friends. She smoked. She drank. She played cards. She was pregnant for more than 400 weeks of her life. pic.twitter.com/gBODFbGJiD When you do go to visit, you can't hug or touch. You are separated by an offset pair of double metal grilles. pic.twitter.com/wrWhpJL992 Ann Russell Miller (Sister Mary Joseph of the Trinity, O.C.D.). 1928-2021. Say hi to dad for me. pic.twitter.com/TTqNr44URg Until she gave it all up to become a nun, Ann Russell Miller was a wealthy San Francisco socialite who hosted charity events, attended the opera, went on cruises and spent her time getting glamorous at the Elizabeth Arden salon, according to newspaper accounts of her life. Wife to Richard Kendall Miller, an executive with Pacific Gas and Electric, and mother to 10 children, she had "a million and one friends, she smoked, she drank and she played cards". "By age 27 she had five kids," said her youngest son, Mark Miller, in his tweets. "And then she went on to have five more - a basketball team of each sex. Planned Parenthood she called it."