Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....GRAY, Grace (Grimes) August 2005
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THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR  Newsletter from Sebewa, Volume 41   August 2005   Number 1; submitted with permission of Editor Grayden D. Slowins
Grace Grimes Gray, 94, first wife of the late Duane Gray, sister of the late 
Carol Grimes and a brother in California, daughter of Bertha & Marion Grimes.  
Grace was born dirt poor on a forty-acre farm at the S. E. corner of Cassel & 
York Roads in Sebewa Township.  She overcame great odds to acquire an 
education.  She paid her room, board, books & tuition to Portland High School 
by working as a live-in maid for the Chester Blanchard family, while their own 
daughter, her classmate, did not have to lift a finger to do household chores 
that normal families expect.  She is listed as a graduate of Lake Odessa High 
School in 1929, and then she attended Ionia County Normal.  She taught rural 
Ionia County Schools and eventually became a fully certified Elementary teacher 
in Lakewood Schools, from which she retired.  Her last years were spent within 
a wall of silence, ending at Cumberland manor in Lowell.  She is buried with 
her father, mother, and baby sister on their lot in West Sebewa Cemetery.

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