Kerry Merritt was born in Luling, Texas in 1925, the youngest in a family of three brothers. The Merritts moved to a farm at Lockhart, three miles out on the San Marcos road, when Kerry was about a year and a half old. During the great Depression, the family operated the Merritt Dairy. Starting at 4 a.m. they milked thirty cows, bottled the milk and delivered it to peoples doorsteps, ten cents a quart. The father drove the truck and youngest son, Kerry, delivered the milk and picked up the empties at the homes along the route. Then, it was time for the boys to go to school. There are no days off for a dairy and the family never had a vacation break during the years the...
Patriot Stories from the United States Army
FRANK C. LUDDEN
In WWII, Frank Ludden was a combat engineer, promoted up through the enlisted ranks, making Master Sergeant in record time. Postwar, he graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering then went on to a highly successful professional career of 42 years. But, despite those impressive lifetime achievements, today he modestly deflects attention from himself to other things hes proudest of. He says, I have a brother that is famous, Allen Ludden, he was host of the TV show Password for ten years, married to one of the Golden Girls, Betty White. Allen died in 1981, but Betty is still acting (Betty is in the recently released movie, The Proposal, with Sandra Bullock). He...