Ralph Merryman (1952)

MERRYMAN, FULLER, WIDNER, BROPHY

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Date: 3/30/2007 at 21:14:11

Winterset Madisonian, July 30, 1952, Pg 1, section 2
Winterset, Iowa

RALPH MERRYMAN DIES AT CLINTON

Heart Ailment Is fatal for former resident of Peru

Ralph Merryman, a native of Norwalk and a former resident of Peru, died Wednesday, July 23, at a hospital in Clinton, where he had been living in recent years. His death resulted from a heart ailment, after an illness of two weeks.

While living in Peru, Mr. Merryman served as signal maintainer for the Chicago Great Western railway. After leaving here he was a resident of Knoxville, where he was connected with the Veteran’s hospital for 10 years. For the past three years at Clinton he had been stationary engineer at the Veteran’s hospital. He was a veteran of World War I.

He was a prominent Mason, being a member of the York Rite lodge at Knoxville, the Welfare lodge of Norwalk, the Des Moines Consistery and Za-Ga-Zig shrine.

Surviving are his wife, Madeline; his mother, Mrs. Jennie Merryman of Norwalk; three sisters, Mrs. Walter Fuller of Winterset; Mrs. Clarence Widner of Des Moines and Mrs. Ed Brophy of Portland, Ore; and five brothers, Lester of Nora Springs, Bert and Claire of Waterloo, and Everett and Lyle of Des Moines.

Funeral services were held Saturday from were held Saturday from the Dunn Funeral home in the Des Moines, and burial was made in the Masonic cemetery.