ROBERT MERKEL Robert A. Merkel, age 71 of Hamburg, died Saturday, October 31, 2020, at St. Andrew’s Health Campus. Born May 26, 1949, in Batesville, he is the son of Irene (Nee: Bedel) and Herman Merkel. He worked 22 years for the Canada Dry Bottling Plant and 25 years at New Horizons as a material …