Randolph County AlArchives Obituaries.....Grinaker, Arne James October 15, 1988 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Girardi mmgir@aol.com April 25, 2007, 12:39 pm The Randolph Leader - Oct 19, 1988 The Randolph Leader October 19, 1988 ___________________ OBITUARIES: Arne James Grinaker (ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.) Funeral services for Dr. Arne James Grinaker, age 57, of 4347 44th Street South, St. Petersburg, Fla., were held Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1988, at 11 a.m. from Kenfield-Woodlawn Funeral Home in St. Petersburg, with Dr. Norman Groves and John D. Carr as the officiants. Interment was in Royal Palm Cemetery. Dr. Grinaker died Saturday, October 15, at Bay Front Medical Center, St. Petersburg, of a massive heart attack. A native of Roanoke, Ala., he moved with his family to St. Petersburg in 1936. In preparation for his medical career, he attended Duke University on a basketball scholarship, completing his pre-med studies there in 1953. He took advanced courses at the University of Florida in Gainesville, graduated from the University of Miami Medical School in 1958, interned at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, and in 1962 established in St. Petersburg his practice in internal medicine and cardiology. In addition, Dr. Grinaker served for many years as volunteer medical director of a children's camp in the Bahamas. Survivors in Dr. Grinaker's immediate family, all of whom reside in St. Petersburg, are his wife Patricia, sons Christian Lee and Arne Lee, mother Winnie Huckeba Grinaker, and sister Margaret Penuel. Many nieces and nephews also survive. Arrangements were by Kenfield-Woodlawn Funeral Home. The family requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the American Diabetes Association. __________ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/obits/g/grinaker1061gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb