President of Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company.
Funeral Services were held at the family residence on Dog River, with the Very Rev. Andrew C. Smith, S.J. president of Spring Hill College officiating. Interment will be in Pine Crest Cemetery with Roche Mortuary in charge.
Mr. Griser's death followed a brief illness.
He had been president of the Alabama Shipbuilding & Dry Dock since 1944 and was one of the city's most outstanding industrialists and a leader in the movement of inland waterways.
He learned the shipbuilding trade as an apprentice and mechanic at the Charleston (S.C.) Navy Yard after working in News Orleans for a time Mr. Griser came to Mobile in 1917 and entered the Addsco family as a mechanic working his way up to superintendent .
He was a director of the First National Bank of Mobile and served as a director of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce. He was active in several other civic groups.
Surviving are his wife Mrs. Florence Louise Slater, a daughter, Marion Griser Schmohl, three sisters, Marie Cordray, Mary Griser Campbell, Geraldine Griser Kanapaux,
seven grandchildren and other relatives.
Predeceased by his Parents John Joseph Griser and Marion Geraldine Brunson Griser brothers, William "Brunson" Griser (April 02, 1957)and Captain Emmett Joseph Griser, U.S.M.S. ( August 26, 1942)
Funeral Services were held at the family residence on Dog River, with the Very Rev. Andrew C. Smith, S.J. president of Spring Hill College officiating. Interment will be in Pine Crest Cemetery with Roche Mortuary in charge.
Mr. Griser's death followed a brief illness.
He had been president of the Alabama Shipbuilding & Dry Dock since 1944 and was one of the city's most outstanding industrialists and a leader in the movement of inland waterways.
He learned the shipbuilding trade as an apprentice and mechanic at the Charleston (S.C.) Navy Yard after working in News Orleans for a time Mr. Griser came to Mobile in 1917 and entered the Addsco family as a mechanic working his way up to superintendent .
He was a director of the First National Bank of Mobile and served as a director of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce. He was active in several other civic groups.
Surviving are his wife Mrs. Florence Louise Slater, a daughter, Marion Griser Schmohl, three sisters, Marie Cordray, Mary Griser Campbell, Geraldine Griser Kanapaux,
seven grandchildren and other relatives.
Predeceased by his Parents John Joseph Griser and Marion Geraldine Brunson Griser brothers, William "Brunson" Griser (April 02, 1957)and Captain Emmett Joseph Griser, U.S.M.S. ( August 26, 1942)
President of Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company.
Funeral Services were held at the family residence on Dog River, with the Very Rev. Andrew C. Smith, S.J. president of Spring Hill College officiating. Interment will be in Pine Crest Cemetery with Roche Mortuary in charge.
Mr. Griser's death followed a brief illness.
He had been president of the Alabama Shipbuilding & Dry Dock since 1944 and was one of the city's most outstanding industrialists and a leader in the movement of inland waterways.
He learned the shipbuilding trade as an apprentice and mechanic at the Charleston (S.C.) Navy Yard after working in News Orleans for a time Mr. Griser came to Mobile in 1917 and entered the Addsco family as a mechanic working his way up to superintendent .
He was a director of the First National Bank of Mobile and served as a director of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce. He was active in several other civic groups.
Surviving are his wife Mrs. Florence Louise Slater, a daughter, Marion Griser Schmohl, three sisters, Marie Cordray, Mary Griser Campbell, Geraldine Griser Kanapaux,
seven grandchildren and other relatives.
Predeceased by his Parents John Joseph Griser and Marion Geraldine Brunson Griser brothers, William "Brunson" Griser (April 02, 1957)and Captain Emmett Joseph Griser, U.S.M.S. ( August 26, 1942)
Funeral Services were held at the family residence on Dog River, with the Very Rev. Andrew C. Smith, S.J. president of Spring Hill College officiating. Interment will be in Pine Crest Cemetery with Roche Mortuary in charge.
Mr. Griser's death followed a brief illness.
He had been president of the Alabama Shipbuilding & Dry Dock since 1944 and was one of the city's most outstanding industrialists and a leader in the movement of inland waterways.
He learned the shipbuilding trade as an apprentice and mechanic at the Charleston (S.C.) Navy Yard after working in News Orleans for a time Mr. Griser came to Mobile in 1917 and entered the Addsco family as a mechanic working his way up to superintendent .
He was a director of the First National Bank of Mobile and served as a director of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce. He was active in several other civic groups.
Surviving are his wife Mrs. Florence Louise Slater, a daughter, Marion Griser Schmohl, three sisters, Marie Cordray, Mary Griser Campbell, Geraldine Griser Kanapaux,
seven grandchildren and other relatives.
Predeceased by his Parents John Joseph Griser and Marion Geraldine Brunson Griser brothers, William "Brunson" Griser (April 02, 1957)and Captain Emmett Joseph Griser, U.S.M.S. ( August 26, 1942)
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