Manheim, PA
Wayne Lawrence Merrill
1949 — 2021
Wayne Lawrence Merrill was born on July 2, 1949, in Chattanooga, TN to Elsie (Geist) and Lawrence Merrill. Wayne was the eldest of 4 children: Maribeth, Sherman and Eunice. Later the family would move to Mount Desert Island, ME where Larry was a small-town pastor. Another family move in his teens led Wayne to DuBois and later Corsica, PA. There he met the love of his life, Barbara Sherman at a Clarion Limestone High School Dance. They married the Saturday after she graduated from high school, and they immediately went to Iceland where he would be stationed with the Navy for their first three years of marriage. It was a difficult start in a harsh climate with language barriers and cultural...
