William B. Merritt
US Navy - Armed Guard served aboard SS George S. Boutwell, Pacific Theatre.
Saipan, Phillipines
After the war "Bill" returned to West Virginia and worked in the coal mines, ran a gas station in the town of Alderson before becoming an electrician. Bill then worked along the East coast including Washington DC, working at the White house during its renovation in the early 1950s. He eventually worked in Portsmouth, Ohio at steel mills and coke ovens being constructed there in the area, where he met and married Jean in 1955. They then moved to Dayton, Ohio where Bill worked as an electrician until retiring in 1981.
William Merritt died in November, 1995.
Please contact Tracy Merritt at the following email:
tracerm@live.com
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