Sadly, we are sending this notification of the passing of Merry Stewart Fourhman.  Merry had fallen and broken a hip, and passed soon after on February 26, 2025.  More details about arrangements can be found in the following obituary link:  https://www.morgan-nay.com/obituary/merry-fourhman

Survived By: Son, Karsh Fourhman (Shelby Hope); daughter, Katherine Jones (Kenneth) and many grandchildren.

Frieda Fink Wilson noted that they grew up in Crete a block from one another, so sometimes walked to school together. Merry was very caring, friendly, and a good student, attended the Lutheran Church in Crete.

Merry's husband, Bob, passed several years prior due to a fall from basement steps. He provided many good photographs of prior reunion events, for the benefit of our class.

Merry was once asked about her father, Ronnie Stewart, teaching Junior High English at Crete Elementary School. She laughed and said "no, Ronnie is my (much) older brother, who went to college, fought in the Korean War, and then returned to Crete to teach".

The following short biography is from Merry's Reunion page, Comment Block:

Bob and I met on a blind date our first year at Southern Illinois/Carbondale from which I graduated in 1965.  My first year of teaching was in Dixon, IL.  Bob and I were married in June, 1966 after his "super Senior year."  I taught high school English a number of years in Illinois, Michigan, and Indiana.  Bob was in the USAF during which we lived in Gulfport MS, and Oscoda, MI from 1968 to 1972.  At the end of his military "career" we decided to look for employment wherever life took us, not necessarily back to our home communities.  (Bob grew up in the Cleveland OH area.)  As it happened, I had read an article by Charles Kuralt in Family Circle magazine describing 18 places one could live.  We decided to look over several of those, one of which was Madison IN.  When we drove down the hill, we fell in love.  Of course, it helped that the school system had an opening for Bob--jr. high library/media.  It has been a great place to live and raise our family.
 
I ultimately obtained an MLS from Indiana University/Bloomington in 1988 while working as a library/media specialist at Jennings County High School in North Vernon, IN.  Bob and I both retired in 2003.  We have since traveled and cruised to many places, mainly in the US.  My dream trip after retiring was a two-week cruise on the fabled Delta Queen.  When we first moved to Madison, I was so taken with her many stops in Madison when she traveled the Ohio River.  There is something magical about the sound of her calliope and the steam whistle as she prepares to depart upriver.  When I retired, that was the trip I really wanted to make, going from New Orleans to Cincinnati.  We did it in 2008, the last year that the DQ was in operation.
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Sadly, I must add that I lost Bob on March 14, 2016, when he died suddenly of a traumatic head injury after falling down our stairs.  He is buried in the Indiana Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Madison, Indiana.

https://www.morgan-nay.com/obituary/merry-fourhman