Thomas Dewitt Grimes

Services for Thomas Dewitt Grimes, 80, of Rusk, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, April 23, 2007 at Wallace-Thompson Funeral Home Chapel in Rusk, with Rev. Don Copeland officiating.

Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery in Oakland, Texas under the direction of Wallace Thompson Funeral Home in Rusk.

Mr. Grimes died April 20, 2006 at his home in Rusk.

He was born March 18, 1927 in Rusk.

Visitation will be from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, April 22 at Wallace Thompson Funeral Home in Rusk.

Mr. Grimes was a veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He served in the U.S. Army and also the U.S. Navy. He received a Purple Heart in the Korean War.

Mr. Grimes is preceded in death by his grandson Allen Strayhorn, brothers James Grimes and Bartee Grimes, father George W. grimes and mother Rosa Grimes.

Survivors include daughters Sherry Jones of Maydelle and Debbie Strayhord of Greenville; two sisters, Evelyn Todd of Freeport and Elsie Grogan of Jacksonville and one brother, R.V. Grimes of Auga Dulse, Texas; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Family and friends will serve as pallbearers.
 

April 22, 2007

Information from The Jacksonville Daily Progress