Obituaries:  Dan Mercer, Sabine Parish       M-626
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Sep 17, 1981
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Dan Mercer

  Funeral services for Dan Mercer, 53, of Marshall, Tex., was held
at 4 p.m., Monday, Aug. 31, in the chapel of Jim Martin Funeral
Directors, Dr. William J. Fritts, and the Rev. Bruce Will
officiating.

  Burial was in Woodley Cemetery, with Masonic graveside rites by
Marshall Masonic Lodge No. 22 F/AM.

  Mr. Mercer died Saturday, Aug. 29, at Marshall Memorial
Hospital, of a heart attack.

  A lifelong county resident, he was born Feb. 5, 1928, in Elysian
Fields, to James Hendricks, and Adell Woodley Mercer.

  He served in the U. S. Military during World War II, ant the
Korean Conflict.

  Mr. Mercer was employed by Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., for
32 years. He belonged to the First Baptist Church of Marshall.

  He was a member of Marshall Masonic Lodge No. 22 F and A.M., and
the Marshall Lions Club.

  Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Dan Libby Wedgeworth Mercer of
Marshall, formerly of Zwolle; his mother, Mrs. J. H. Adelle
Mercer of Elysian Fields; a daughter, Dana Mercer Haden of
Marshall; a son, Stanley Mercer of Marshall; two sisters, Mrs.
Wayne Anne Mae Griffin of the Cross Roads Community, and Mrs.
Charles R. Billye Lawrence of Elysian Fields; a grandson, Joe
Haden of Marshall, a nephew; two nieces; and a number of aunts
and uncles.

  Pallbearers were Barnett Cordray, Wayne Woodfin, James J.
Watson, Gerald Smith, Steve McFarland, and C. D. "Bud" Taylor.
Honorary pallbearers were Dr. Roger Jones, Dr. Roger Harmon,
members of the Lions Club, members of the First Baptist's Adult 3
Sunday School Class, and friends and family.

  Memorials may be made to the Youth Endowment Fund of the First
Baptist Church, the Lions Crippled Children's Camp in Kerrville,
or the Crippled Children's Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas.