Willie Merle Wiseman
Mother, age 23
She was called Merle. The name Willie was given her by her father in honor of a friend. I always found her beauty astonishing. It did not diminish with age. Born September 29, 1914, in Arkansas, died September 21, 1999, in Oklahoma City. She came to Oklahoma City the same year as my father, 1917. Her father, Martin Pinkney Wiseman, gained employment at the new packing plant. She attended Capitol Hill High School. There were early romances, of course. She met my father when she was working in Kerr's Department Store. An innocent flirtation, no doubt. But he was in love. She had another serious romance going on. Ah, what a story, if I could only tell it right. There were three children from this marriage. I was their first-born (1941), named Robert Love Taylor, Jr. Carole Ann (named after Carole Lombard) came next (1942). And Janis Louise was born in 1948.
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