For years, Grace was known to most as "Aunt Grace". It didn't matter if you were related by marriage, a great (or great great) niece or nephew or just a neighbor down the street.

Grace was born on a farm in Clayton County, Iowa, where she grew up. She was second to the youngest in a large family. Although Grace and her husband, Levi, left the state of Iowa and lived in places including Oregon, Wisconsin and Minnesota, they kept in touch with all of the family and visited back and forth.

Grace went about doing good wherever she was. Although she had no children of her own, several of her nephews made a home with Grace and her husband at different times. Grace and Levi contributed to a number of Christian ministeries and were members of The Pilgrim Holiness Church when they lived in Medford, Oregon.

Grace always encouraged young people to respect their parents, have a high moral standard of conduct, and to be thrifty. She liked to tell the story about when she was a child and her mother gave her a quarter to spend at the fair. Grace said when she returned home, she still had that quarter!

When Grace purchased fabric, she would buy several bolts of the same material. When she sewed, she made matching clothes, baby blankets, even curtains for different households of her relatives. In the later years of her life, "Aunt Grace" still made many matching flannel nightgowns to give to her loved ones at Christmas.

Her niece, Naomi (Holroyd) Larsen, penned the following-

Aunt Grace, you're precious and darling,
In fact you are a dear,
I'm writing this for you at Christmastime,
But it applies all through the year.

You're kindness excels all others,
You're one in a million it's true,
God sees and you'll be rewarded,
For the wonderful things you do.

I pray your Christmas be merry,
Your New Year especially bright,
And since I can't be with you,
Accept this with delight.

For you'll find gobs of hugs and kisses,
And a squeeze that's oh! so tight,
To this I'll add I love "you"
And mail it to you tonight.