William Walter Grindstaff^[1]

1918 - 1999  (81 years)

• Name	William Walter Grindstaff
  Born	4 Jan 1918
  Gender	Male
  Died	21 Mar 1999	Mariner Health Care Center   [2]
  Buried	Resthaven Memorial Gardens
  Person ID	I80327	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2013

  
  

  Father	William Chancey Grindstaff,   b. 3 Apr 1886, Mt. Sterling, Haywood County, North Carolina ,   d. 17 Mar 1970, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee  (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Minnie Lee Landereth,   b. 19 Aug 1894,   d. 11 Dec 1930  (Age 36 years)
  Married	1911	Greenville, South Carolina
  Family ID	F33927	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Cora Mae Ford,   b. 7 Feb 1927,   d. 8 Jan 2011, Mercy Hospital of Newport, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee  (Age 83 years)
  Married	28 Oct 1949
  Children	+ 1. Earl Marion Grindstaff,   b. 17 Dec 1949,   d. 28 Jun 2011  (Age 61 years)   2. Barbara Jean Grindstaff,   b. 18 Dec 1950  (Age 73 years)   3. Johnny Martin Grindstaff,   b. 11 Nov 1954  (Age 70 years) + 4. Karen Dean Grindstaff,   b. 16 Jul 1968  (Age 56 years)
  Family ID	F29517	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [S104] Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 95, 119. [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 21 Mar 1999. William Walter Grindstaff, 81, of Cosby, passed away Sunday at the Mariner Health Care Center. He was a WWII veteran. He was a member of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Grassy Fork. Walter was a retired farmer and retired from the Tennessee Highway Dept. in 1982. He was preceded in death by his parents, William and Minnie Landereth Grindstaff; sisters, Lillie Grindstaff and Lucille Hunter; and brothers, Edward and Earl Grindstaff. He is survived by his wife, Cora Mae Ford Grindstaff of Cosby; children, Earl and daughter-in-law, Gay Phillips Grindstaff of Cosby, Barbara and son-in-law, Chuck Quintard of Atlanta, Georgia, John M. and daughter-in-law, Evelyn Grindstaff of Newport, and Karen and son-in-law, Johnny Messer of Newport; sister, Flora Barnhardt of Newport News, Virginia; grandchildren, Leonard, Earl, John, and Katrina Grindstaff, Melissa Ball and Ashley and Daniel Messer; and great-grandchildren, Kala, Leonard, and Ronnie Grindstaff and Dylan and Dakota Ball. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Brown Funeral Chapel with Rev. Ransom Hall and Rev. Byron Chambers officiating. The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. Tuesday evening at the Brown Funeral Home. Military rites will be provided by Lance Corporal Charles C. Roberts D.A.V. Chapter #102 at the Resthaven Memorial Gardens. Brown Funeral Home is in charge.