Lawrence A. Merville
Lawrence A. Merville, 89, died of a heart ailment at 12:45 p.m. yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Taylor Grinnell, Hillsboro road.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Marshall-Donnelly-Combs funeral home, 201 Twenty-fifth ave., N. The Rev. A. Faxon Small will officiate. Burial will be in the Spring Hill cemetery. The body is at the funeral home.
Mr. Merville was a retired car inspector for the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway. He retired in 1938 after more than 50 years of service with the railway.
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and moved to Waverly, Tenn., when he was 12 years of age. He attended the old Edgewood and Dickson Normal school at Dickson, Tenn., and was married more than 50 years ago to the former Miss. Aida Ferguson of Waverly. She died several years ago.
He had made his home with his daughter for the past 11 years.
Mr. Merville was a member of the railroad brotherhood.
Survivors include another daughter, Mrs. John W. Hamrick, Nashville, and five sons, Albert, Oscar and Larry Merville, all of Nashville, Frank B. Merville, Pittsburgh, and James B. Merville, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Published in The Tennessean on January 3, 1956.
Lawrence A. Merville, 89, died of a heart ailment at 12:45 p.m. yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Taylor Grinnell, Hillsboro road.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Marshall-Donnelly-Combs funeral home, 201 Twenty-fifth ave., N. The Rev. A. Faxon Small will officiate. Burial will be in the Spring Hill cemetery. The body is at the funeral home.
Mr. Merville was a retired car inspector for the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway. He retired in 1938 after more than 50 years of service with the railway.
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and moved to Waverly, Tenn., when he was 12 years of age. He attended the old Edgewood and Dickson Normal school at Dickson, Tenn., and was married more than 50 years ago to the former Miss. Aida Ferguson of Waverly. She died several years ago.
He had made his home with his daughter for the past 11 years.
Mr. Merville was a member of the railroad brotherhood.
Survivors include another daughter, Mrs. John W. Hamrick, Nashville, and five sons, Albert, Oscar and Larry Merville, all of Nashville, Frank B. Merville, Pittsburgh, and James B. Merville, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Published in The Tennessean on January 3, 1956.
Lawrence A. Merville
Lawrence A. Merville, 89, died of a heart ailment at 12:45 p.m. yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Taylor Grinnell, Hillsboro road.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Marshall-Donnelly-Combs funeral home, 201 Twenty-fifth ave., N. The Rev. A. Faxon Small will officiate. Burial will be in the Spring Hill cemetery. The body is at the funeral home.
Mr. Merville was a retired car inspector for the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway. He retired in 1938 after more than 50 years of service with the railway.
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and moved to Waverly, Tenn., when he was 12 years of age. He attended the old Edgewood and Dickson Normal school at Dickson, Tenn., and was married more than 50 years ago to the former Miss. Aida Ferguson of Waverly. She died several years ago.
He had made his home with his daughter for the past 11 years.
Mr. Merville was a member of the railroad brotherhood.
Survivors include another daughter, Mrs. John W. Hamrick, Nashville, and five sons, Albert, Oscar and Larry Merville, all of Nashville, Frank B. Merville, Pittsburgh, and James B. Merville, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Published in The Tennessean on January 3, 1956.
Lawrence A. Merville, 89, died of a heart ailment at 12:45 p.m. yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Taylor Grinnell, Hillsboro road.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Marshall-Donnelly-Combs funeral home, 201 Twenty-fifth ave., N. The Rev. A. Faxon Small will officiate. Burial will be in the Spring Hill cemetery. The body is at the funeral home.
Mr. Merville was a retired car inspector for the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway. He retired in 1938 after more than 50 years of service with the railway.
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and moved to Waverly, Tenn., when he was 12 years of age. He attended the old Edgewood and Dickson Normal school at Dickson, Tenn., and was married more than 50 years ago to the former Miss. Aida Ferguson of Waverly. She died several years ago.
He had made his home with his daughter for the past 11 years.
Mr. Merville was a member of the railroad brotherhood.
Survivors include another daughter, Mrs. John W. Hamrick, Nashville, and five sons, Albert, Oscar and Larry Merville, all of Nashville, Frank B. Merville, Pittsburgh, and James B. Merville, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Published in The Tennessean on January 3, 1956.
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