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I am Michael Merriman, the son of Randy Merriman, and I am requesting the following to be replaced in his biography.

Anson Randolph (Randy) Merriman was born in Minneapolis, MN December 1, 1911. He married Evelyn Elvira Kuehn, July 10, 1934. They had 3 children, Susan, Michael and Thomas. His wife passed away suddenly from a heart attack at age 61. Randy remarried Marjorie Crandall in 1975.

Randy left military school to join the circus. After a stint as ringmaster, he became a star on the Minneapolis/St Paul vaudeville stage before joining KSTP Minneapolis/St Paul as host of a local radio show in which soldiers in the South Pacific could talk to relatives in Minnesota. Shortly after he was headed to the South Pacific himself, working with Bob Hope and other celebrities as a USO entertainer during WW II. He returned to KSTP after the war and co-hosted a local quiz show. In 1951 He moved to New York and ushered in the network quiz show era, starring in The Big Payoff with former Miss America, Bess Myerson, televised nationally on NBC and later on CBS. He returned to Minneapolis in 1958 and joined WCCO Minneapolis/St Paul hosting radio and television shows. After retiring he moved to Boca Raton, FL.

Randy was a member of the Zuhrah Shrine Merrymakers and performed magic tricks for children in his retirement years. He was also inducted into the Minnesota Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2003.

Randy passed away at the age of 93. He was cremated and buried at St Paul Lutheran Church in Boca Raton


 * Hi Mr. Merriman: I hope it's better now. Articles have to be based on reliable sources, so starting with the birth date you supplied, I searched for sources and rewrote the article based on them. The Encyclopedia of Television source that was being cited appears to diverge from other reliable sources as well as from your account above, so I commented out the paragraph based on it, and I did not find reliable sources for most of the information about his marriages and children. There seems to be confusion about the years and his age when he died; I went by the Hall of Fame and you for the birth date and the Obituaries in the Performing Arts for the death date, and therefore left out his age at his death. (And my subsequent edit to teh article changed the categories to match my changes to the birth and death years in the article text.) If a source that I have cited is wrong about a year or something else, can you please provide a correct source, preferably not a document or other primary source? I suspect he may have fudged his age at some point, but it's also quite possible some writer misread something, but many newspaper archives, for example, are hard to search when one doesn't either have a subscription or know exactly what to look for. The best place to respond with corrections and sources is the talk page for the article: Talk:Randy Merriman. Thanks for reaching out; your father had an interesting career that was fun to read up on. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:08, 4 December 2019 (UTC)