Mary C. LaLouette Grimmett, Florence
Former Emporia resident Mary C. Grimmett of Florence died Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006, at the Golden Living Center of Marion in Marion. She was 87.
Mrs. Grimmett was a homemaker.
The daughter of Leon and Anna Margaret Carpenter LaLouette, she was born Oct. 28, 1919, at rural Florence. She married George Kelly Grimmett on Feb. 27, 1939, at Eureka. He died in 1995. She grew up in Florence, graduated from Cedar Point High School in 1937, attended Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia and lived in Emporia until 1944 and then in Florence for the remainder of her life.
Mrs. Grimmett was a member of Cedar Point Community Church.
She is survived by one daughter, Anna Lea Brenzikofer of Florence; two sons, George K. Grimmett Jr., of rural Florence and Edwin Lee Grimmett of Shelbyville, Texas; 11 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren.
One sister, Margaret Cecilia Jones; and one brother, John Leon LaLouette, died earlier.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Zeiner Funeral Home in Florence. The coffin will be closed. The family will meet friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Burial will be at Hillcrest Cemetery in Florence.
Memorial contributions to the Cedar Point Community Church may be sent in care of the funeral home, 104 W. Fifth St., Florence, KS 66851-1116.