Barbara Miller

Barbara Ann Miller, who had run Barbara Miller Studios, a drapery and slipcover business in East Hampton, died last Thursday at Stony Brook University Hospital after a stroke, her family said. Ms. Miller, who had lived in the Avalone Apartments on Fort Pond Road in Montauk, was 72.

Ms. Miller was interested in the arts from an early age. While in junior high school in Mount Vernon, N.Y., she won a scholarship to attend a weekend program at Pratt Institute in New York City. Following high school she entered Cooper Union in Manhattan, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1966.

By the time she had graduated, however, she had already lined up a job, with Hallmark in Kansas City, Mo., where she designed party supplies. After two years there, she married Robert Eikenberry and moved to Atascadero, Calif., where they lived for eight years. The family later lived in Mount Shasta, Calif., where their three children were born.

The couple were divorced in 1978, and in 1980 Ms. Miller moved back to Montauk. She worked as a sign painter, mail carrier, in the production department of The East Hampton Star, and as a freelance artist. She did drafting for an artist and a surveyor and later managed Ginny Quinn’s restaurant before opening her drapery and slipcover business.

She was a member of St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church and sang in the choir there.

She was born on Sept. 24, 1944, in Mount Vernon to George J. Miller and the former Ethel D. Amundson.

Ms. Miller is survived by her children, Matthew Eikenberry and Andrew Eikenberry of Montauk, and Annie Eikenberry of California, and a brother, George M. Miller of Montauk, as well as several grandchildren.

Donations in her memory have been suggested to the Montauk Fire Department, 14 Edgemere Street, Montauk 11954.

Ms. Miller was cremated; no service was announced.