Then, while a 16-year-old student at Shoreline High School, she agreed to accompany Vrooman to a band audition in Renton. By age 13 she was volunteering as a performer in various United Service Organizations (USO) programs entertaining military troops along with a girlfriend named Lynn Vrooman. Merrilee attended Lake Forest Park Elementary and began taking piano lessons, then started at Morgan Junior High.

Reuben was a home-builder and the family - eventually including Merrilee's younger siblings Cheryl, Marsha, Laura, and Clayton - moved at least a few times into new houses he had built.

But then in 1968, after scoring her first of several international radio hits, 'Angel of the Morning,' she was no longer Seattle's private treasure and the years of major-label record deals, television appearances, and concert touring began.īorn Merrilee Gunst to Reuben and Edith Gunst in Seattle on January 26, 1944, Rush grew up in the the city's north end. Her trademark low voice and comely looks and an exciting stage presence helped her lead a string of teen combos - notably the Statics and the Turnabouts - to regional fame. Since, other sheep have been cloned as well as horses, pigs, deer, and bulls.Merrilee Rush was among the most popular homegrown singing stars that the Northwest rock 'n' roll teen scene produced during the mid 1960s. Dolly lived to be 6 years old and produced 6 lambs. In 1996, at the age of 16 years old, David was alive when on July 5th, the first cloned mammal - 'Dolly the Sheep' - was born in Scotland. He was 75 when he was elected and he served one five-year term. In 1994, he was merely 14 years old when on May 6th, former political prisoner, lawyer, and activist Nelson Mandela was elected the first black President of South Africa. The newly created Bosnian Serb army then began a campaign against Muslim Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats - killing, raping, torturing, beating and robbing - and resulting in the deaths of over 100,000. In 1992, he was merely 12 years old when in April, Bosnia-Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia. Within 100 hours, American ground troops declared Kuwait liberated. Saddam Hussein's forces had previously invaded the sovereign state of Kuwait and the focus of the operation was to remove his Iraqi troops from Kuwait. In 1991, when he was only 11 years old, on January 16th, Allied forces began the first phase of Operation Desert Storm. Chapman was found guilty of murder and still remains in jail. In 1980, in the year that David P Erickson was born, on December 8th, ex-Beatle John Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in front of his home - the Dakota - in New York City. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during David's lifetime.

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