August 22, 2008
John Will Merrill
John Will Merrill was born August 1, 1902, in Lamar, Colorado. He married Guardy Kweehr on February 16, 1928 and they had two children. He worked in the printing business, served on the Lamar school board for 16 years and was director of the Lamar library during the 1940s. Merrill talks about drought conditions during the Dustbowl, government-forced destruction of livestock, and big dust storms in Lamar.
