Dates

• Existence: 1917 - 2003

Parallel Names

• Biggs, Wilford Merwin

Biography

W. Merwin Biggs (1917-2003) was a music teacher from Arizona.

W. Merwin Biggs was born August 2, 1917, in Mesa, Arizona, to Wilford Biggs and Detta A. Lisonbee. Merwin served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the North Central States Mission from 1935 to 1937. He attended Arizona State Teachers College and later taught music and built and maintained homes. He was also a genealogist and family historian. Merwin married Gladys Heder on November 15, 1939, in Arizona. After Gladys passed away in 1993, Merwin married Amy Grover Biggs in January 1994. Merwin died April 9, 2003, in Provo, Utah.

Citation:

History of Ellen Amelia Johnson Lisonbee as paraphrased by W. Merwin Biggs from the story written by Mary Ellen Lisonbee Winget and Zelanie Lisonbee Nielsen, 1985 (W. Merwin Biggs)

FamilySearch, accessed November 21, 2023 (W. Merwin Biggs was born August 2, 1917, in Mesa, Arizona, to Wilford Biggs and Detta A. Lisonbee; attended Arizona State Teachers College and later taught music and built and maintained homes; genealogist and family historian; married Gladys Heder on November 15, 1939, in Arizona; Gladys passed away in 1993; married Amy Grover Biggs in January 1994. Died April 9, 2003, in Provo, Utah) https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/KWCH-X5J

History.ChurchofJesusChrist.org, via www, accessed November 21, 2023 (Merwin served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the North Central States Mission from 1935 to 1937)