Description: John Merrell Memorial, North Olmsted
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Created in 2010 to celebrate the life of John Merrell & raise funds to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Chocolate chip cookies. Anything chocolate. Pipe tobacco. Slight road rage. The red truck. Mowing. Max the dog. Coke in a can. Orange hat. Gloves, year round. Bike rides to the park. Shuffling cards at 5:30 in the morning, playing solitaire, driving to away soccer games with our "lunch" (snickers and Dr. Pepper), going "camping" (in the driveway), Indian's games in the bleachers with fresh peanuts from Danny Boys, scraping sound of a fork or spoon against a bowl or plat
A partial list of what we'll remember about Papa. As his granddaughter, I was blessed (we all were) to spend a lot of time with the man who became Pa. Jan, Mike, and Jay were blessed with a father who taught them about hard work and family means everything.