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Charles J. Grim, 84, died shortly after 3 o’clock Friday, December 6, 1940 at his home in Grand Island. His death followed an illness of three monnths.
Born Dec. 11, 1856 in Knox County, Illinois, Mr. Grim came to Nebraska with his parents, who settled on a farm near Ulysses in 1869. He married Miss Emma Worley at Seward Dec. 11, 1879.
Eight children were born of their marriage
They moved to Hamilton Co., after 21 years residence at Ulysses and subsequently made their home on farms near Cairo and Ravenna. his wife died at Ravenna and he came to Grand Island sixteen years ago to live.
Immediat survivors include two sons, George at Ulysses and Earl at Turner, Oregon; four daughters, Mrs. Gertrude Horton and Mrs. Henrietta Liedtke of Grand Island, Mrs. Ethel Elliott of Bayard and Mrs. Floy Reed of Springfield, Oregon; also 18 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and two half-brothers, Frank and Ezra Grim, at Ulysses.
One child died in infancy and a son William died at 21 years of age.
Funeral services were held on Sunday with services at the Geddes Funeral Home at 10 o’cloock in the morning in Grand Island, and in the Methodist church in Ulysses at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Rev. Earl Raitt, pastor of the Methodist church in Grand Island conducted the services there.
Rev. D. Smith of the Ulysses Christian church conducted the services in the Methodist church in Ulysses.
A quartet, Mrs. John Lay, Mrs. Henry Hunschhe, James Stephens, and Dale Slife, accompanied by Mrs. R. A. Piller rendered several hymns.
The pallbearers were Ezra Grim, Dave Adams, Carl Diers, S. R. Robey, Allen Withers and Roy Russell. Interment was n the Grim cemetery.