Boyd Merryfield

This picture may have been taken as late 
as October of 1946.  Boyd Merryfield is 
the son of Lestor and Lucille Evans.  He 
was a member of the 1942 Wild Rose 
Basketball team that won the conference 
championship as well as on the all 
conference team.  He played baseball for 
Wild Rose and later Wautoma 
city baseball teams.  He served in the 
Navy in World War II.  While he was on a 
20 day leave in October of 1946 he went 
pheasant hunting with his father, Boyd
 Ruland and; his son Billy, and Donald and 
Roger Colligan.  They went to Mitchell, 
South Dakota.  They came back with 
129 pheasants.  He married Marian
Bernadine Younglove.  She died in 1987.  
More recently he has volunteered at the 
Veterans Home at King. Lived 
in Oshkosh from 1963 to 1984 when he
returned to Wautoma. They had four children. 
He diedNovemeber 30, 2018 in Wautoma.