merilyn shaw

**merilyn shaw** was born September 28, 1931, in Springfield, Missouri, during the Great Depression. She was a daughter of the late Ivan Lee and Zelma Anne Hurt Cromer. The first home she remembered was a three-room teacherage, only yards away from her two-room grade school in Dolberg, a poor rural community in dust-bowl Oklahoma. With both parents being teachers, what she remembered of her early years was an atmosphere redolent of blackboard and chalk, books and a woodstove, wood for …