MITCHELL COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - Arnold Grindstaff, 11 Oct 2001
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ARNOLD GRINDSTAFF

SPRUCE PINE – Arnold Grindstaff, 79, of the Beaver Creek community, died 
Thursday, October 11, 2001, in Spruce Pine Community Hospital. He was the son 
of the late Grover and Bertha Greene Grindstaff. He was retired from the U.S. 
Air Force after 20 years of service, and retired from the Spruce Pine Police 
Department after 12 years of service.
Survivors include his wife, Lucy Grindstaff of the home; sons, Dean Hoyle of 
Micaville, and Richard Hoyle of Asheville; daughters, Violet Ann Weaver of 
Indiana, and Stephanie Ledford of Spruce Pine; sisters, Helen Jones and June 
Willis, both of Bakersville, and Louise McClellan of Spruce Pine; brother, Jay 
Grindstaff of Burnsville; and six grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Grindstaff Memorial 
Chapel of Webb Funeral Home in Spruce pine.  Rev. Vernon Buchanan officiated. 
Burial followed in the Lily Branch Cemetery. The family received friends from 
10 a.m. until the service hour at the funeral home