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Merri Dee, born Marry Francine Dorham was a known American philanthropist and TV journalist who was popular for her works at Illinois television station and national cable superstation WGN-TV. She was born in Chicago on October 30, 1936, and lived through to Chicago on March 16, 2022, when she passed.

Her parents used to work back and forth between Chicago and New Orleans even before she was born and two years after she was born, her mother died. Merri’s dad remarried four years after the death of his wife but her stepmother abused her and sent her to an orphanage to be raised there.

During her teenage years, Merri went back to Chicago where she attended Englewood Technical Prep Academy and graduated in 1955. After high school, she relocated to New Orleans to have her college education at Xavier University, where she majored in business administration.

Merri got her first journalism job at radio station WBEE located in Illinois. In 1968, she hosted an entertainment program that broadcasted on the then-fledgling independent station WCIU (channel 26) on Saturday nights.

Merri had two children, a daughter from her first marriage and an adopted son in her second marriage.