Mrs. Merlin Spears Grimes

Warren Holloway Ward Funeral Home

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Posted by: Warren Holloway Ward FH
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Date: Jan 24 2017 11:14 AM

Mrs. Merlin Spears Grimes passed away Saturday, January 21, 2017. She was 89.

 

Funeral services will be held at 11: 00 a.m. Thursday January 26, 2017 in the chapel of Warren Holloway Ward Funeral Home in Geneva with Rev. Howard Moore            officiating. Burial will follow in the Travelers Rest Cemetery with Warren Holloway Ward Funeral Home of Geneva directing. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m.

 

 Mrs. Grimes was born in Geneva Co Al to the late Abraham “Abe” and Valley Mosley Spears.  She was a loving and devoted mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great grandmother. She was a member of El Bethel Baptist Church. Flowers will be accepted or contributions to the Alzheimer’s Association.

 

In addition to her parents she is preceded in death by her husband Cecil Selma Grimes, a daughter; Sandra Gail Grimes, Three Brothers, Ted, Jake, and Joe Spears; Six Sisters, Inez Spear, Mae Pearl Benjamin, Carlos Mitchum, Mary Estelle Tucker, Sally Hughen and Gwendolyn Miller.

 

Survivors include, two daughters; Wylene Howerton of Coffee Springs, Al and Beverly Balish (Rick) of Dearborn Heights, MI

 

 Five Grandchildren, Ten Great-grandchildren, and Six great-great-grandchildren

A number of nieces and nephews.

 

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