WILLIAM "Bill" MERTEL

For My dear friends , Shirley and Bill. ! I am your Westfield friend , your garage neighbor, I will miss you always ! And love you. ! When I first met Shirley and Bill. I just loved them ! It s hard to find such loving good hearts as theirs. ! I was not able to find out how they are after moving from here . It breaks my heart to not have been able to help somehow. Shirley was a real Lady Princess ! You just had to love her. ! We were good friends and...

To the family, friends and all the students lives that Mr. Mertel has touched. I am so grateful to have been one of Mr. Mertel's students at Beachwood Middle School. He was a kind spirit and he always strived to bring out the best in his students. Mr. Mertel was the epitome of all the things that an impactful teacher should posses. May he continue to live on through all of the many lives he has touched.

I want to share this beautiful tribute to my dad. It was written by a friend and former neighbor, Jacquie McGrath.

After reading the best obituary I have ever read...I would just like to take a moment to write a little about Lisa Mertel's father who recently passed away. I had the good fortune of moving across the street from the Mertel family back in 1984. Mr. Mertel kept an immaculate yard, and spent hours picking little weeds from his gravel driveway. His flowers were always...

It is with sadness and appreciation that I wish I might have known Bill. From his personally written obituary, I admire so many things about him and the people he dearly loved. May he rest in peace.