Merle was Bonnie’s great love. I knew Bonnie, Buck, and Merle.
She loved him til the day she died.
I met Bobby Austin when he was a patient at the Portland VA hospital. His wife Vern told me some great stories of about having to run Merle, Buck and George Jones out of her house when they would all be getting drunk with Bobby. She said she would say “now dammit I’ve got kids to get up for school in the morning and ya’ll better get out of here”!