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WILLIAM EDWARD MERRITT, 79, of Coldwater, Miss., retired teleprocessing clerk for Illinois Central Railroad, died of heart failure Dec. 21 at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto in Southaven. Services will be at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at Forest Hill Funeral Home East with burial in West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery. He was a former member of Broadway Baptist Church in Southaven, a member of the Memphis Al Chymia Shrine Temple, Eastern Star and O. K. Houk Masonic Lodge 707 and was a World War II Army veteran. Mr. Merritt, the husband of Elizabeth C. Merritt, also leaves two sons, William David Merritt of Cordova and John Franklin Merritt of Coldwater; three sisters, Elmyra Rhodes and Lucille Clay, both of Pine Bluff, Ark., and Lenora Robinson of Hot Springs, Ark.; two brothers, James Merritt and Frank Merritt, both of Pine Bluff, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. (Published in The Commercial Appeal 12/31/2000)
WILLIAM EDWARD MERRITT, 79, of Coldwater, Miss., retired teleprocessing clerk for Illinois Central Railroad, died of heart failure Dec. 21 at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto in Southaven. Services will be at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at Forest Hill Funeral Home East with burial in West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery. He was a former member of Broadway Baptist Church in Southaven, a member of the Memphis Al Chymia Shrine Temple, Eastern Star and O. K. Houk Masonic Lodge 707 and was a World War II Army veteran. Mr. Merritt, the husband of Elizabeth C. Merritt, also leaves two sons, William David Merritt of Cordova and John Franklin Merritt of Coldwater; three sisters, Elmyra Rhodes and Lucille Clay, both of Pine Bluff, Ark., and Lenora Robinson of Hot Springs, Ark.; two brothers, James Merritt and Frank Merritt, both of Pine Bluff, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. (Published in The Commercial Appeal 12/31/2000)
PFC US ARMY, WORLD WAR II
WILLIAM EDWARD MERRITT, 79, of Coldwater, Miss., retired teleprocessing clerk for Illinois Central Railroad, died of heart failure Dec. 21 at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto in Southaven. Services will be at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at Forest Hill Funeral Home East with burial in West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery. He was a former member of Broadway Baptist Church in Southaven, a member of the Memphis Al Chymia Shrine Temple, Eastern Star and O. K. Houk Masonic Lodge 707 and was a World War II Army veteran. Mr. Merritt, the husband of Elizabeth C. Merritt, also leaves two sons, William David Merritt of Cordova and John Franklin Merritt of Coldwater; three sisters, Elmyra Rhodes and Lucille Clay, both of Pine Bluff, Ark., and Lenora Robinson of Hot Springs, Ark.; two brothers, James Merritt and Frank Merritt, both of Pine Bluff, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. (Published in The Commercial Appeal 12/31/2000)
WILLIAM EDWARD MERRITT, 79, of Coldwater, Miss., retired teleprocessing clerk for Illinois Central Railroad, died of heart failure Dec. 21 at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto in Southaven. Services will be at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at Forest Hill Funeral Home East with burial in West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery. He was a former member of Broadway Baptist Church in Southaven, a member of the Memphis Al Chymia Shrine Temple, Eastern Star and O. K. Houk Masonic Lodge 707 and was a World War II Army veteran. Mr. Merritt, the husband of Elizabeth C. Merritt, also leaves two sons, William David Merritt of Cordova and John Franklin Merritt of Coldwater; three sisters, Elmyra Rhodes and Lucille Clay, both of Pine Bluff, Ark., and Lenora Robinson of Hot Springs, Ark.; two brothers, James Merritt and Frank Merritt, both of Pine Bluff, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. (Published in The Commercial Appeal 12/31/2000)
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