Graveside services will be held for Lulu Grivel on Monday, February 10, at 2 p.m. at the Davis Creek Cemetery. Dr. Ben Zandstra of Lake City will conduct the service. Mrs. Grivel of Davis Creek, passed away peacefully on Monday, February 3, 2003 at Warnerview Skilled Nursing Facility in Alturas.

She was the first of two girls born on her grandparents' 1891 homestead, located three miles from Davis Creek. Born on March 26, 1904, she would have been 99 next month. Both grandparents, Adam and Melissa Hartlerode came to Davis Creek in covered wagons. Her parents, Ernest and Alice Hartlerode, homesteaded, ranched and worked in sawmills. Lulu was 15 when she met Harry Grivel, who was working on a Likely ranch. Three years later they were married on January 18, 1921 in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Lulu always wanted to live in a big house, so she and her husband bought an old 18-room hotel. She spent the next 15-plus years giving some 60-plus foster children a home. She maintained contact with many of those children.

After selling the place to their son Robert, the Grivel's moved to Ukiah, where they lived for some 15 years operating a small "mom and pop" grocery store called Grivel's Cash Grocery. The store was located near the high school and lunch time was a busy time. The store was open six days a week. They purchased the place in Davis Creek back from their son and moved back in 1971, a year before Harry died.

She was preceded in death by her husband Harry; son Robert, son-in-law Buster Dollarhide, granddaughter Lynette Meiser, and sister Bessie Watson.

She is survived by her daughter, Lola Dollarhide of Davis Creek, grandchildren Paul Grivel and Mick Grivel of Alturas, Robert Grivel, Jr. of Susanville and Doug Dollarhide of Davis Creek. Great-grandchildren include Brady and Eric Grivel, Craig Grivel of Sacramento, Rick Grivel of Phoenix, Arizona, Tammy Main of Susanville, Shannon and Melissa Dollarhide of Corvallis, Oregon. She leaves six great-great-grandchildren, her nieces Iola James of Davis Creek and Viola Bailey of Houston, Texas; foster daughters June Brunnemer of Alturas and Pearl Gulbranson of Carson City, Nevada; numerous foster children and many family friends. The family requests donations to their favorite charity in lieu of flowers.