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- Meredith Freeman Eller, born on April 25, 1912, the son of Joseph Wesley and Agnes Meredith Eller, in the Methodist Parsonage at Heltonville, Indiana, attended Schools in Waldron and Salem, Indiana, and Kiefer and Hobart, Oklahoma, and attended High Schools in Hobart, Cement, and Fort Cobb, Oklahoma, and Middleboro, Mass., graduating from the last-named in 1928.
After a year of post graduate study in Middleboro High School, he entered Boston University College of Liberal Arts in the fall of 1929, receiving the A.B. degree in 1933. He received the degree of S.T.B. from Boston University School of Theology in 1936.
Mr. Eller, taken into the New England Southern Conference of the Methodist Church in June, 1934, served four charges as pastor: North Grosvenor Dale and East Thompson, Conn.; Mapleville and Glendale, R.I.; Jewett City and Voluntown, Conn.; East Hartford, Center, and Quarryvllle, Conn.
From September, 1940, to May, 1941, he was graduate assistant in Duke University School of Religion, Durham, N.C.
He was married to Pearl Caroline MacCombie on April 7, 1935;
Dr. and Mrs. Eller had four children; Christine Agnes, Philip Norman, Mary Ann, and John.
Dr. Eller served as pastor in Kirksville, MO, for many years and as professor of history and religion at Central College, Fayette, MO, and at NMSU now Truman State University, in Kirksville, MO.
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