HOPE (FISHBURN) MERRIN

Hope Merrin, 97, died on January 14, 2019. She was born October 14, 1921 in Cincinnati and married James Merrin on December 27, 1941. Her love of New Mexico and the pueblos of Santo Domingo and Cochiti, as well as her interest in Southwestern archaeology and anthropology, led her to volunteer at the Laboratory of Anthropology library and publish a 1995 paper on white disk beads found in the region. Hope was preceded in death by her husband, who died in 1994. She is survived by two sons, Stephen and Joel, a half brother and half sister, 5 grandchildren and 4 greatgrandchildren. The family asks those wishing to honor Hope’s memory to make donations to the ASPCA or a local animal shelter.