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Isabell Merkley, 19071981 (aged 74 years)

Name
Isabell /Merkley/
Given names
Isabell
Surname
Merkley
Family with parents
father
George Albert Merkley 1882-1952.jpg
18821952
Birth: 13 December 1882 23 22 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 16 August 1952Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
mother
Georgina Blackburn 1889-1974.jpg
18891974
Birth: 11 March 1889Minersville, Beaver, Utah, USA
Death: 16 March 1974Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Marriage Marriage10 October 1906Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
6 months
herself
19071981
Birth: 12 April 1907 24 18 Maeser, Uintah, Utah, USA
Death: 12 April 1981Price, Carbon, Utah, USA
20 months
younger sister
Eva Merkley 1908-1999.jpg
19081999
Birth: 4 December 1908 25 19 North Ashley, Uintah, Utah, USA
Death: 9 March 1999Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
18 months
younger sister
19101997
Birth: 19 May 1910 27 21 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 18 April 1997Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
2 years
younger brother
Albert Davis Merkley 1912-1984.jpg
19121984
Birth: 18 July 1912 29 23 Roosevelt, Duchesne, Utah, USA
Death: 23 December 1984Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
2 years
younger brother
19141915
Birth: 11 November 1914 31 25 Roosevelt, Duchesne, Utah, USA
Death: 24 March 1915Roosevelt, Duchesne, Utah, USA
18 months
younger sister
Kate Ann Merkle 1916-2012.jpg
19162012
Birth: 21 April 1916 33 27 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 29 May 2012Price, Carbon, Utah, USA
3 years
younger brother
Woodrow B. Merkley (1919-1988)
19191988
Birth: 28 March 1919 36 30 Maeser, Uintah, Utah, USA
Death: 22 May 1988Rohnert Park, Sonoma, California, USA
2 years
younger sister
19211921
Birth: 13 July 1921 38 32 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 13 July 1921Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
11 months
younger brother
Amos Ezra Merkley 1922-1985.jpg
19221985
Birth: 16 June 1922 39 33 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 8 January 1985Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
23 months
younger brother
19242015
Birth: 21 April 1924 41 35 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 28 October 2015Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, USA
3 years
younger sister
19262003
Birth: 3 November 1926 43 37 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 17 August 2003Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
7 years
younger sister
1933
Birth: 1933 50 43 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death:
Family with Dr William Walter Lewis
husband
18831977
Birth: 13 September 1883Richmond, Cache, Utah, USA
Death: 7 May 1977Price, Carbon, Utah, USA
herself
19071981
Birth: 12 April 1907 24 18 Maeser, Uintah, Utah, USA
Death: 12 April 1981Price, Carbon, Utah, USA
Marriage Marriage21 August 1937Glenwood Springs, Garfield, Colorado, USA
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Last change
1 July 201918:34:47
Author of last change: 7mikefh
Note

Isabelle M. Lewis, a prominent leader and businesswoman in Price, owner and operator of Lewis Jewelry Co. Inc., died April 12, 1981 at home after a brief illness. She was born in Vernal, the oldest child of George Albert Merkley and Georgiana Blackburn on April 12, 1907. She is survived by 9 brothers and sisters, Eva Knight, Edna White, Davis, Amos and Warren Merkley, Flora Singleton and Marie Voyles all of Vernal, Kate Jewkes, Price, and Woodrow Merkley, Helper. Five step children, Blanche Heberling, California, Joanne Erksine and Fae Maughan, Denver, Colorado and Don C. Lewis, Tooele and Richard F. Lewis, Price.

Isabell came to Price in 1930 and started working in the jewelry business in 1931. She married Dr. W.W. Lewis 22 August 1938 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. He died May 7, 1977. Isabell was a prominent member of the community and as such participated actively in the Business and Professional Women’s association and the Soroptomist Club, holding all the leadership positions at various times in these organizations. She was an active member of the Lady Elks Lodge and Credit Women’s International. She had received the Business Woman of the Year Award. She also participated actively in the Chamber of Commerce and the Retail Merchants Association and took an active part in most community drives.