Florence Maybelle Grimm

Sibley, Iowa Florence M. Grimm, age 86, of Sibley formerly of Sterling, CO, died Sunday, March 4, 2007 at the Country View Manor Nursing Home in Sibley, IA. Funeral services will be 10:30 A.M., Friday, March 16, 2007 at the Christ United Methodist Church in Sterling, Colorado. Burial will follow in the Riverside Cemetery of Sterling. Visitation will be Thursday, March 15th, from 2-8 P.M. with the family present from 5-8 P.M. at the Chaney-Reager Funeral Home in Sterling, Colorado. Mrs. Grimm was born Oct. 13, 1920, in Sterling to Jesse and Maude (Trimmer) Brewer. She was raised in Sterling, graduating from Sterling High School. She was a secretary, a stenographer for Logan County Extension Service, and a clerk at Daylight Donuts. On Sept. 11, 1949, she married Paul Grimm in Sterling. They lived and worked on the family farm near Willard, moving to rural Sterling in 1955. In 1995, they moved to Devonshire Acres Assisted Living, and later to Sibley. She was a member of Christ United Methodist Church. She volunteered her services for the Brownie and Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, church rummage sales and youth groups, and was a 4-H leader. Mrs. Grimm is survived by four daughters, Constance Johnson, Sterling, Pauline Scharf, Branson, Mo., Karen Kasch and husband Russell, Sibley, and Faith Fischer and husband Richard of UK, England; a son, Roy Grimm and wife Virginia, Colorado Springs; and five grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, and her husband in 2001.