John David Merriman was born on 19 Jan 1942 in Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma; died on 31 Aug 1967 in Republic Of Vietnam.
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Said to be the son of Willis Roy Merriman and Mary Martha Kelley. Killed in Vietnam, in the service of the United States Marine Corps. They had a couple of boys who went to live with her mother after their father's death.