Misc. Notes
Orval’s name is also spelled “Orville” in some places.
766He edited a Seventh Day Adventist paper. Orval lived in Salem.
766Death Certificate
Name: Orval Dale Grimm
Date/Place of death: March 3, 1960, Salem, Harrison Co., WV
male, white, widowed
Date/Place of birth: Sept. 5, 1898, WV
Age: 61y
Occupation: Clergyman; editor
Fother: Samuel Milroy Grimm
Mother: Hattie Prunty
Cause of Death: Coronary thrombosis
Date/Place of burial: March 6, 1960, Mt. Harmony Cemetery, Pennsboro, WV
Informant: Orval Dale Grimm, Jr., Parkersburg, WV
Obituary, The Capital Journal (Salem, OR), Mar. 10, 1960:
Orval Dale Grimm Sr., an employe of Oregon Pulp & Paper Co. from 1944 to 1963, died unexpectedly at his home in Salem, W. Va., Wednesday. He was 62.
Mr. Grimm wa born Sept. 5, 1893, at Pullman, W. Va., the son of the late Samuel Milroy and Hattie Prunty Grimm. He was twice married, first to Lela Conaway, who died in 192, and to Alice Fisher who died in 1953.
Mr. Grimm wa a minister of the Church of God, Seventh Day, and editor of church publications.
Survivors include two sons, Orval Dale Jr. of Parkersburg, W. Va., and Charley Duane of Wyandotte, Mich.; two daughters, Mrs. Raymond W. Current of Salem, Ore. adn Betty Gail Grimm of Parkersburg, a brother, Earl of Pullman, W. Va. and four grandchildren.