Wife of Fredrick Miller Grimes, they were married on June 8,1882. They had six children Frederick Miller Grimes, Jr. and Imogene Grimes are not listed on the family link below.
Daugher of Raleigh Hightower and Jane (Thompson) Hightower both born in Mississippi.
Lydia Arvalene (Hightower) Grimes
May 13, 1860 - Aug. 30, 1943
AGED NATIVE OF FROST COMMUNITY DIED EARLY MONDAY
FROST, Texas, Aug. 30.— (Spl.)— Mrs. Lydia A. Grimes, aged 83 yeas, native of this vicinity, died Monday morning at 3:30 o'clock following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be held from the Methodist church here Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Burial will be in the White Church cemetery near Blooming Grove. The rites will be conducted by Rev. T. D. Ellis, pastor of the Methodist church, assisted by Rev. D. P. Cagle, pastor of the Frost Baptist church.
Mrs. Grimes was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Hightower, pioneer Navarro county residents. She was born near old Cross Roads, four miles south of Frost, before Frost was established. She resided in Blooming Grove for a number of years before moving to her home here.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Mary Carol, Dallas, and Mrs. Imogene Ruffin, Ennis; three sons, Earl F. Grimes, Fort Worth; Fred M. Grimes, Conroe, and S. E. Grimes, Dallas; seven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and a brother, W. A. Hightower, Frost.
Pallbearers will be Everett Hightower, Ed Sheppard, I. A. Sanders, G. H. Haley, Olin Fuller and Johnnie Strain.
McCormick's Funeral Home is in charge.
The Corsicana Daily Sun - Monday, August 30, 1943
Daugher of Raleigh Hightower and Jane (Thompson) Hightower both born in Mississippi.
Lydia Arvalene (Hightower) Grimes
May 13, 1860 - Aug. 30, 1943
AGED NATIVE OF FROST COMMUNITY DIED EARLY MONDAY
FROST, Texas, Aug. 30.— (Spl.)— Mrs. Lydia A. Grimes, aged 83 yeas, native of this vicinity, died Monday morning at 3:30 o'clock following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be held from the Methodist church here Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Burial will be in the White Church cemetery near Blooming Grove. The rites will be conducted by Rev. T. D. Ellis, pastor of the Methodist church, assisted by Rev. D. P. Cagle, pastor of the Frost Baptist church.
Mrs. Grimes was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Hightower, pioneer Navarro county residents. She was born near old Cross Roads, four miles south of Frost, before Frost was established. She resided in Blooming Grove for a number of years before moving to her home here.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Mary Carol, Dallas, and Mrs. Imogene Ruffin, Ennis; three sons, Earl F. Grimes, Fort Worth; Fred M. Grimes, Conroe, and S. E. Grimes, Dallas; seven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and a brother, W. A. Hightower, Frost.
Pallbearers will be Everett Hightower, Ed Sheppard, I. A. Sanders, G. H. Haley, Olin Fuller and Johnnie Strain.
McCormick's Funeral Home is in charge.
The Corsicana Daily Sun - Monday, August 30, 1943
Wife of Fredrick Miller Grimes, they were married on June 8,1882. They had six children Frederick Miller Grimes, Jr. and Imogene Grimes are not listed on the family link below.
Daugher of Raleigh Hightower and Jane (Thompson) Hightower both born in Mississippi.
Lydia Arvalene (Hightower) Grimes
May 13, 1860 - Aug. 30, 1943
AGED NATIVE OF FROST COMMUNITY DIED EARLY MONDAY
FROST, Texas, Aug. 30.— (Spl.)— Mrs. Lydia A. Grimes, aged 83 yeas, native of this vicinity, died Monday morning at 3:30 o'clock following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be held from the Methodist church here Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Burial will be in the White Church cemetery near Blooming Grove. The rites will be conducted by Rev. T. D. Ellis, pastor of the Methodist church, assisted by Rev. D. P. Cagle, pastor of the Frost Baptist church.
Mrs. Grimes was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Hightower, pioneer Navarro county residents. She was born near old Cross Roads, four miles south of Frost, before Frost was established. She resided in Blooming Grove for a number of years before moving to her home here.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Mary Carol, Dallas, and Mrs. Imogene Ruffin, Ennis; three sons, Earl F. Grimes, Fort Worth; Fred M. Grimes, Conroe, and S. E. Grimes, Dallas; seven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and a brother, W. A. Hightower, Frost.
Pallbearers will be Everett Hightower, Ed Sheppard, I. A. Sanders, G. H. Haley, Olin Fuller and Johnnie Strain.
McCormick's Funeral Home is in charge.
The Corsicana Daily Sun - Monday, August 30, 1943
Daugher of Raleigh Hightower and Jane (Thompson) Hightower both born in Mississippi.
Lydia Arvalene (Hightower) Grimes
May 13, 1860 - Aug. 30, 1943
AGED NATIVE OF FROST COMMUNITY DIED EARLY MONDAY
FROST, Texas, Aug. 30.— (Spl.)— Mrs. Lydia A. Grimes, aged 83 yeas, native of this vicinity, died Monday morning at 3:30 o'clock following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be held from the Methodist church here Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Burial will be in the White Church cemetery near Blooming Grove. The rites will be conducted by Rev. T. D. Ellis, pastor of the Methodist church, assisted by Rev. D. P. Cagle, pastor of the Frost Baptist church.
Mrs. Grimes was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Hightower, pioneer Navarro county residents. She was born near old Cross Roads, four miles south of Frost, before Frost was established. She resided in Blooming Grove for a number of years before moving to her home here.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Mary Carol, Dallas, and Mrs. Imogene Ruffin, Ennis; three sons, Earl F. Grimes, Fort Worth; Fred M. Grimes, Conroe, and S. E. Grimes, Dallas; seven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and a brother, W. A. Hightower, Frost.
Pallbearers will be Everett Hightower, Ed Sheppard, I. A. Sanders, G. H. Haley, Olin Fuller and Johnnie Strain.
McCormick's Funeral Home is in charge.
The Corsicana Daily Sun - Monday, August 30, 1943
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