Bill Miller and his wife, Gendie Miller, loved watching their 16-year-old daughter, Marlee, play softball. The couple from Ligonier, Pennsylvania, traveled to McKeesport to watch her play in the Western PA College Showcase softball camp on July 23, 2025. While watching the game, tree branches began to fall on the couple. Bill Miller got out of the way in time, but Gendie Miller was not so lucky. Tragically, the branches injured the 49-year-old woman so seriously that she died.
Bill Miller said he heard the branches begin to crackle and told his wife they’d better move quickly, WTAE reported.
“I jumped out of my chair, felt a small branch of some sort that grazed my leg. And I immediately turned to my right to look back at her, and she was face down with large, multiple branches and limbs,” Bill Miller said…