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Show Dr. Amos Merrill Dies in Provo Hospital Mr. and Mrs. Alton Merrill were called to Provo last week by the serious illness and death of Mr. Merrill's father, Dr. Amos N. Merrill, 78, husband of Mrs. Josephine Paramore Merrill, former for-mer resident of Parowan. Dr. Merrill died Saturday morning in the Utah Valley hospital after an operation. Funeral services for Dr. Merrill Mer-rill were conducted Tuesday at 1 p. m. in the Berg Mortuary by Thomas A. Wolsey, bishop of the Provo Fifth ward, with several sev-eral people from here in attendance. attend-ance. He was born Mar. 15, 1875 in Richmond, Cache county a son of Marriner Wood Merrill, an LDS apostle, and Sarah Ann Atkinson Merrill. During his life he had engaged in farming with his father, had worked for the Cache Valley Dairy Co. and developed de-veloped a fruit orchard on Provo Pro-vo bench from sage brush land. He was educated at the Richmond Rich-mond schools, the Brigham Young college at Logan, the Utah State Agricultural college. He re ceived his M.S. degree from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. from the University ol Chicago. Chi-cago. He taught In Richmond, at the B. Y. C, at the B. Y. U. and at the University of Maine. He filled a mission to England from 1987 to 1900 and was active In L D S affairs all of his life. He married Eliza Lewis Drys-dale, Drys-dale, April 25, 1900 in the Logan LDS temple. She died Feb. 21, 1951 and on April 28, 1952 he married Mrs. Josephine Paramore of Parowan in the Manti LDS temple and she survives him along with the fallowing children: chil-dren: Lyman Merrill, Compton, Calif.; Vernon Merrill, Price; Mrs. Lucille McDonald, Salt Lake City; David Merrill, Farmington; Alton Merrill, Parowan; 18 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild; great-grandchild; two stepdaughters, Pauline and Mary Jo Paramore, Provo and a stepson, Rulon C. Paramore. |
