EARL GRIM

ESSEX, Mo. -- Funeral for Earl Grim of Essex will be held at 1 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter, Mo. The Rev. Mike Brown will officiate. Burial will be in Essex Cemetery.

Grim, 75, died Saturday, Jan. 13, 2001, at his home.

He was born Aug. 18, 1925, at LaValle, Mo., son of James Alt and Minnie Ethel Newell Grim. He and Imogene DeJournett were married Nov. 15, 1955, in St. Louis.

Grim was a retired carpenter and had lived in Essex all his life.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Terry Grim of Bloomfield, Mo., Jimmy Grim of Essex; three daughters, Ann Bennett of Arnold, Mo., Shirley Tucker of Dexter, Sandra Kildow of Essex; a brother, Ernie Grim of Dexter; four sisters, Pansy Woodruff, Flora White and Louise Johnson of Dexter, Opal Wyatt of Wright City, Mo.; 11 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a son, two sisters, a brother and two grandchildren.