William Travis Grinstead Sr.

life story

Loving Husband, Father, Grandpa, Brother, and Friend and Provider...

Loving Husband, Father, Grandpa, Brother, and Friend...

Loving Husband, Father, Grandpa, Brother, and Friend

Loving Husband, Father, Grandpa, Brother, and Friend and Provider...

Funeral services for William Travis Grinstead, 60, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday from St. John's Methodist Church with the Rev. James L. Nettleton officiating. Mr. Grinstead died at 2:40 p.m. wednesday at St.John's Mercy Hospital, St. Louis County, Missouri.

A resident at 32 Washington Place, Bill had been employed as a linotype operator at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 20 years and owner and operator of Bil-Mar Beach Resort in northern Michigan. He had made his home in Edwardsville the past 34 years.

Born Jan. 9, 1904 at Windsor, Missouri, a son of the late Hugh F. and Lula Mae Brown Grinstead, he was married to Mary Beck of Oakland City. Ind. The couple were married on September 18, 1925 in Princeton, Indiana.

By 1950 he and Mary had eight children. They then purchased 35 acres and an Island on Big Manistique Lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and began building a summer resot for the family.

In addition to the resort project, Bill started a number of small businesses, including a printing shop, a rabbit farm, and a newspaper from 1930 to 1960. He was also a good writer and wrote for newsletters including The Lone Scouts, as well as small business instructional manuals and brochures.

Surviving in addition to his wife are eight children, William Travis Jr. of Prospect, Pennsylvania, John Edward of Waynesville, Missouri, Robert Hugh, David Lee and Mrs. John (Virginia) Davenport, all of Edwardsville, Mrs. Louis (Wilma) Diester of Odessa, Texas, Mrs. George (Joyce) Simko of La Crescenta, Calififornia, and Mrs. Bobby Rae (Betty Lou) Raines of Kansas City, Missouri: and three sisters, Mrs. Frances Grinstead (Lucille Kohler) of Lawrence, Kansas, Mrs. R. E. (Elizabeth) Waters of Colorado, and Mrs. Don (Louise) DeVinney of Page, Arizona, fifteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild. His Parents and his brother Sewell preceded him in death.

Mr. Grinstead was a member of St. John's Methodist Church and the Bible Class, the St. Louis Typographical Union, and the Lone Scout organization.

He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

Friends may call at Lesley Marks Funeral Home after noon Friday until 11 a.m. Saturday when the body will be taken to the church to lie in state until the service. Burial will be in Valley View Garden of Memory

LOTS TO ADD: MICHIGAN, EIGHT KIDS, YELLOWSTONE, BUSINESSES, RABBITS, ETC......WRITER LONE SCOUTS ETC FATHER WRITER MOM TOO TEACHER UNCLE JESSE FAMOUS

W. T. Grinstead Obituary from The Edwardsville Intelligencer with some edits by David Lee Grinstead for better grammar, fewr abbreviations, and some inclusions, etc.

memorial service

Valley View Cemetery 1564 Lewis Rd, Edwardsville, IL 62025, USA

Valley View Garden of Memory