Merle, his sister Ardith and their mother Hazel moved to Los Angeles in 1937 from Titonka, Iowa.
Merle married Lillian P. Haro on January 27, 1940 and they had one daughter, Yvonne, born June 5, 1941. They were divorced. On August 10, 1957 Merle married Frances Mae Soliwoda; that marriage also ended in divorce about 1959.
For many years he lived in Pasadena. He contracted TB in the late 1940s or early 1950s and went to Olive View Sanatorium to recover. His sister, Ardith, visited him once a month during his stay and when he was discharged he lived for several months with his sister and her family in Lynwood.
Sometime in the mid-1950s he developed lung cancer and had part of one lung removed. In the mid to late 1960s he fell ill with emphysema from which he never recovered and eventually was hospitalized permanently. His mother, Hazel, lived with him for in the early 1960s until he became so ill he needed hospitalization.
The hospital where he had been a patient was badly damaged in the 1970 Northridge earthquake and he was transferred to another hospital, but it was not very well equipped to care for patients suffering from emphysema and other lung diseases. His sister, Ardith, visited him as often as possible while he was hospitalized. Merle passed away on March 01, 1971.
Merle had outlived all of his doctors' predictions by several years and because of that, he decided to donate his body to scientific research.
Merle married Lillian P. Haro on January 27, 1940 and they had one daughter, Yvonne, born June 5, 1941. They were divorced. On August 10, 1957 Merle married Frances Mae Soliwoda; that marriage also ended in divorce about 1959.
For many years he lived in Pasadena. He contracted TB in the late 1940s or early 1950s and went to Olive View Sanatorium to recover. His sister, Ardith, visited him once a month during his stay and when he was discharged he lived for several months with his sister and her family in Lynwood.
Sometime in the mid-1950s he developed lung cancer and had part of one lung removed. In the mid to late 1960s he fell ill with emphysema from which he never recovered and eventually was hospitalized permanently. His mother, Hazel, lived with him for in the early 1960s until he became so ill he needed hospitalization.
The hospital where he had been a patient was badly damaged in the 1970 Northridge earthquake and he was transferred to another hospital, but it was not very well equipped to care for patients suffering from emphysema and other lung diseases. His sister, Ardith, visited him as often as possible while he was hospitalized. Merle passed away on March 01, 1971.
Merle had outlived all of his doctors' predictions by several years and because of that, he decided to donate his body to scientific research.
Merle, his sister Ardith and their mother Hazel moved to Los Angeles in 1937 from Titonka, Iowa.
Merle married Lillian P. Haro on January 27, 1940 and they had one daughter, Yvonne, born June 5, 1941. They were divorced. On August 10, 1957 Merle married Frances Mae Soliwoda; that marriage also ended in divorce about 1959.
For many years he lived in Pasadena. He contracted TB in the late 1940s or early 1950s and went to Olive View Sanatorium to recover. His sister, Ardith, visited him once a month during his stay and when he was discharged he lived for several months with his sister and her family in Lynwood.
Sometime in the mid-1950s he developed lung cancer and had part of one lung removed. In the mid to late 1960s he fell ill with emphysema from which he never recovered and eventually was hospitalized permanently. His mother, Hazel, lived with him for in the early 1960s until he became so ill he needed hospitalization.
The hospital where he had been a patient was badly damaged in the 1970 Northridge earthquake and he was transferred to another hospital, but it was not very well equipped to care for patients suffering from emphysema and other lung diseases. His sister, Ardith, visited him as often as possible while he was hospitalized. Merle passed away on March 01, 1971.
Merle had outlived all of his doctors' predictions by several years and because of that, he decided to donate his body to scientific research.
Merle married Lillian P. Haro on January 27, 1940 and they had one daughter, Yvonne, born June 5, 1941. They were divorced. On August 10, 1957 Merle married Frances Mae Soliwoda; that marriage also ended in divorce about 1959.
For many years he lived in Pasadena. He contracted TB in the late 1940s or early 1950s and went to Olive View Sanatorium to recover. His sister, Ardith, visited him once a month during his stay and when he was discharged he lived for several months with his sister and her family in Lynwood.
Sometime in the mid-1950s he developed lung cancer and had part of one lung removed. In the mid to late 1960s he fell ill with emphysema from which he never recovered and eventually was hospitalized permanently. His mother, Hazel, lived with him for in the early 1960s until he became so ill he needed hospitalization.
The hospital where he had been a patient was badly damaged in the 1970 Northridge earthquake and he was transferred to another hospital, but it was not very well equipped to care for patients suffering from emphysema and other lung diseases. His sister, Ardith, visited him as often as possible while he was hospitalized. Merle passed away on March 01, 1971.
Merle had outlived all of his doctors' predictions by several years and because of that, he decided to donate his body to scientific research.
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