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Article: Former Idaho lawmaker dies at 71: Merle Parsley was a state legislator, high school teacher from Sandpoint.(Obituary)
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- The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
- Article date:
- September 20, 2007
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Byline: Betsy Z. Russell
Sep. 20--BOISE -- Merle Parsley, who died last weekend at age 71 and will be remembered in a Boise memorial service today, was a former Bonner County state senator and Sandpoint High School history teacher who once was nicknamed the "governor of Northern Idaho."
Parsley was a colorful fixture of North Idaho's political scene in the 1960s and '70s, before he moved to Boise in 1976 and became a state official.
"He had a great zest for life -- he had a lot of fun wherever he was," said Marianne Love, a Sandpoint author and retired teacher. Love said when she taught next door to Parsley's class, she had to close her ...