Verna C. Merritt, Vernon Parish Louisiana Submitted by Jean Cupp Plummer Date: February 17, 2010 ************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************** Verna C. Merritt Our dear Mother entered into a peaceful rest in her home in Hornbeck as she was having her hair done mid-morning Saturday August 20, 2005. She was 92 years old and was born April 1. 1913 in Bronson, Texas. Funeral Services will be at Grace Assembly Church in Hornbeck at 2p.m. Thursday August 25, 2005. Burial will follow at Gravel Hill Cemetery in Bronson, Texas next to her late husband Cicero Caswell Merritt. She is survived by four children, Mary M. Merritt Talbott, Nelson H. Merritt, Caswell H. Merritt, and H. Paul Merritt; 5 sisters, Edna Morris, Neva McComic, Sybil Cochran, LaMoyne Greer, Ruth Manuel, and Alice Drew; two Brothers, T.H. Cochran and Herbert Cochran, and Sharon Merritt who she helped raise.