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Olive J. Mersman, 92, a resident of Albuquerque for sixty years, died Monday, January 11, 1999. She was born Olive Blanche Van Laningham on August 30, 1906 in Adair County, MO, the seventh child of Thomas Milroy Van Laningham and Caroline Shott Van Laningham. At the age of four years she was taken into the home of John L. and Lucinda Bozath Jones of Green Castle, MO, who adopted and raised her. Mrs. Mersman graduated from Green Castle High School and North Missouri State Teachers College (now known as Harry S. Truman University) in Kirksville. In high school and college she was an accomplished musician specializing in violin, piano and voice. Mrs. Mersman taught school in the Green Castle area for six years. On March 7, 1930, she was married to Thomas F. Mersman of Green City, MO. They were the parents of one daughter, Martha Carolyn. In 1939, the Mersman family moved to Albuquerque for health reasons. Mrs. Mersman is survived by her daughter, Martha Hill and husband, Hershel; two grandchildren, Hubert H. Hill II and Shawna Lynn Selph and husband, Andrew; two great-grandchildren, Amelia Lynn and Kyrie Marie Selph, all of Albuquerque, and a host of relatives in Missouri and Iowa. She was preceded in death by her husband on January 20, 1998. Services will be held Saturday, 10:30 a.m., at Glen E. Kent & Son Funeral Home in Green City, MO. Interment will follow at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Friends may visit Glen E. Kent & Son Funeral Home, Friday, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. French Mortuary, 1111 University Blvd. NE.
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