Horace Sellers Merrill, a former public servant and Alabama Baptist pastor, died Feb. 17. He was 80. Merrill, born in Micaville, graduated from Cleburne County High School in Heflin in 1954 and later attended Southern Union Junior College in Wadley. He began working at Dixie Mines Mica Mining Company before entering the political arena in 1964 as circuit clerk of…