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Merlin Purkey 1907 - 1974

Merlin Purkey of Lincoln, Logan County, Illinois was born on June 13, 1907, and died at age 67 years old in November 1974.
Merlin Purkey
Lincoln, Logan County, Illinois 62656
June 13, 1907
November 1974
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    1907

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    June 13, 1907
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  • 11/dd
    1974

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    November 1974
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    Merlin Purkey lived 6 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 67.
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In 1907, in the year that Merlin Purkey was born, the showman Florenz Ziegfeld introduced his Ziegfeld Follies. Ziegfeld was inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris and the show was a step up from the then current vaudeville shows. The top entertainers of the time played in the Follies but the stars were the Ziegfeld girls - beautiful chorus girls in elaborate costumes. For almost a quarter of a century, the Ziegfeld follies were the toast of Broadway.
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In 1912, he was merely 5 years old when the Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low with the help of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts in Great Britain. She said after a meeting with Baden-Powell, "I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight!" And she did.
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