Kern County CA Archives Obituaries.....Merrill, Don  January 31, 2006
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The Bakersfield Californian
Merrill, Don    
 
Don Merrill 
Services: Fri., Feb. 3, 2:00 p.m. 

Funeral services will be held in the Erickson & Brown Funeral Home Chapel on 
Friday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. for Taft resident, Don Merrill, 65. Rev. Jim 
Kilgore, pastor of the Freewill Baptist Church will officiate and entombment 
will follow in West Side District Cemetery Mausoleum. Don was born in 
Springfield, Missouri on June 24, 1940 and passed away in Bakersfield on 
January 31, 2006. He moved to Taft with his family when he was 13 years old. 
He enjoyed fishing, hunting, ceramics, painting and watching westerns on TV. 
He attended sporting events that his family members participated in. Many will 
remember Don as being the unofficial mayor of Buchanan Street and for riding 
his ten speed bike and drinking Pepsi. Don was an honorary member of the SEI 
Union. He was a member of ARC and participated in Special Olympics for many 
years. He was preceded in death by his parents, Everett and Lucille; his 
brother, Ralph Mac Merrill and his sister, Sarah Tucker. Don is survived by 
his mother, Eulah Merrill; his sisters, Eulah Snooks Howell, Melinda Jane 
Criswell and her husband, Ed, Faith Mitchell, all of Taft and Lina Wade and 
her husband, John of Tell City, Indiana; several nieces and nephews, many 
great-nieces and nephews; his longtime girlfriend, Leah Wright and by his dog, 
Jake. The family has suggested that donations in Dons memory may be made to 
Kern County Special Olympics, P.O. Box 2544, Bakersfield, CA 93303, please put 
Taft in memo section or the S.P.C.A., 3000 Gibson St., Bakersfield, CA 93308. 
Friends are invited to pay their respects on Thursday from 3:00 p.m. to 8:30 
p.m. and again on Friday from 9:00 a.m. to service time at the Erickson & 
Brown Funeral Home. Erickson & Brown Funeral Home 

Legacy.com
 
Published in the Bakersfield Californian on 2/1/2006.  


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