People of Marquette | Meet Pam & Doug

The Millers met as teenagers in Colorado, both children of military families. They were accustomed to the “Army brat” lifestyles from an early age, and, coincidentally, both Doug & Pam’s fathers had actually served separately for a short time at K.I. Sawyer in Gwinn back when it used to be an active United States Military Base. A fascinating coincidence that would lead them back to "camp" on 550 year after year, making Marquette, MI the only constant location the two knew as home. “We have two daughters”, Doug proudly stated, “Mallory and Meredith… Malory was born in Germany. Meredith was born in New York… By the time [we were in Norway], both daughters were old enough - we needed to start thinking about college and where [Pam and I] wanted to retire. We started looking at colleges overseas when we were in Norway, it was what [the girls] wanted to do. Mallory went to Michigan Tech without having ever been on campus”. Towards the end of his military career, Doug & Pam found themselves back in Detroit, Michigan. With both daughters persuing their education in the Upper Peninsula and Doug taking an assignment in England for a year. During that time away for Doug, Mallory was well into her education at Michigan Tech for Geological Engineering, and Meredith had decided she wanted to go to Northern Michigan University for Culinary Arts. Pam chimed in at this point, remembering a question she kept asking herself about why they were spending time in Detroit, “when the kids are all up in [Upper Michigan]? Doug was in England, so I bought the house [in Marquette]... he flew in and moved into a house he has never seen”. Visit MakeitMQT.com to read their full story.