Dorothy Grimes

Dorothy A. Grimes, 96 Kearney resident Dorothy A. Grimes, 96 of Kearney passed away Saturday, April 21, 2012 at the Mother Hull Home in Kearney. Funeral Services will be 10:30 A.M. Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at New Life Assembly Church with the Rev. Bob Wine and Rev. Roger Wendt officiating. Visitation will be 5:00 to 7:00 P.M. Tuesday at the O’Brien Straatmann Redinger Funeral Home and will continue one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment will be at the Mansion Memorial Park Cemetery in Ellenton, Florida. Memorials are suggested to the church or Mother Hull Home. Online condolences or personal reflections may be submitted at www.osrfh.com. Services are entrusted to O’Brien Straatmann Redinger Funeral Home. She was born September 24th, 1915 to H. Eugene and Mary (Harvey) Miller in Mc Pherson County. She attended rural school in Mc Pherson County and graduated from Mc Pherson County High School in 1931. She taught school after graduating from high school at the age of 15. She married Russell Adams on December 27, 1936. Russell died January 11, 1942. On April 22, 1944 she married Maurice R. Grimes in Stapleton, Nebraska. In the summer of 1944 she and her husband and son moved to Kearney, living in Kearney until 1947, when they moved to Gordon, NE. There Maurice attended Mid West Bible school and worked as a carpenter and a lay minister to the Sioux Indians. Dorothy was a wonderful mother of 4 children. She taught school on a 2 year certificate. She often traveled many miles to her school, staying at the school all week and returning home on weekends. In the summer months she attended Chadron State College. In 1963 the family returned to Kearney, where Dorothy attended Kearney State College graduating with her BA degree in 1965. She taught in the Kearney area until retirement in 1972. She and Maurice retired, spent winters in Palmetto, Florida returning every summer to Kearney, living in their camper, usually at Fort Kearney, until 2002 when they became year round residents of Palmetto. In June of 2005 they moved to Marble Hill, where they lived with their son, Riley, and his wife, Connie. Maurice died on Sept 3, 2005. In January 2006 Dorothy returned to Kearney and lived at Cambridge Court until March of 2010 when she moved to Mother Hull. Dorothy loved her Lord, and her family, what she enjoyed most was time with them. She always made time for family. The grandchildren enjoyed cooking and creating at Grandma’s, shopping trips to the toy department, making tents and exploring the junk drawer for treasures. She attended The Church of God, New Life Assembly and The Church of The Rock. She enjoyed reading, writing poems, camping and bird watching. We will miss her perpetual smile, her love of life, and contented spirit. Survivors include her sons, Riley Adams and his wife, Connie of Marble Hill, Mo.; Max Grimes of Colorado Springs, Colo.; and John Grimes and his wife, Linda, daughter Mary Purdy and her husband, Ken Purdy, all of Kearney; sister Ada Allen of Sutherland and brother Wilbur Allen of Stapleton. 14 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands, step father Lou Allen, brothers, Lloyd Miller, and Eldon, Chet, Floyd and Ray Allen, and sisters Leola Allen, Bernice Magnuson and Ethel Miller, and her daughter in law Christie Grimes.

Dorothy Grimes

September 24, 1915 - April 21, 2012