Bennie H. Grigsby Sr., 87, of Chetopa died at 6:20 p.m. Saturday, April 22, 2017, at the Chetopa Manor in Chetopa.
He was born on April 6, 1930, in Wichita to Benjamin H. and Louise D. (Morgan) Grigsby. He grew up and attended schools in Wichita graduating from Wichita High School East in 1947. He then attended the University of Kansas before transferring to the University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Grigsby earned a bachelor of science degree in communication studies from UCLA. While at UCLA, he was a member of the ROTC program and later served in the United States Air Force. He continued his service to our country in the Air Force Reserves achieving the rank of major.
Mr. Grigsby worked in radio broadcasting for several years in Riverside and Los Angeles, California. He later owned and operated a television sales and repair business in Los Angeles. He retired and moved to Chetopa in 1989.
His hobbies included fishing, tinkering with electronics, model railroads, Ham radio and in earlier years bowling. He was an avid Los Angeles Dodgers fan. He had attended St. Paul United Methodist Church in Chetopa.
On April 18, 1953, he married Margaret Bassett in Tucson, Arizona. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two sons, Bennie H. Grigsby Jr. of Mountain View, California, and Mark Grigsby of Parsons.
He was preceded in death by two sisters, Justine Tunstall and Charlotte Grigsby.
The service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home in Chetopa. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery in Chetopa with military honors given by the Brown-Bishop Post No. 704, Veterans of Foreign Wars, of Parsons. Friends may call at the Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. Thursday.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the Organization for Autism Research and these may be left at or mailed to the Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home, P.O. Box 346, Chetopa, KS 67336.
He was born on April 6, 1930, in Wichita to Benjamin H. and Louise D. (Morgan) Grigsby. He grew up and attended schools in Wichita graduating from Wichita High School East in 1947. He then attended the University of Kansas before transferring to the University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Grigsby earned a bachelor of science degree in communication studies from UCLA. While at UCLA, he was a member of the ROTC program and later served in the United States Air Force. He continued his service to our country in the Air Force Reserves achieving the rank of major.
Mr. Grigsby worked in radio broadcasting for several years in Riverside and Los Angeles, California. He later owned and operated a television sales and repair business in Los Angeles. He retired and moved to Chetopa in 1989.
His hobbies included fishing, tinkering with electronics, model railroads, Ham radio and in earlier years bowling. He was an avid Los Angeles Dodgers fan. He had attended St. Paul United Methodist Church in Chetopa.
On April 18, 1953, he married Margaret Bassett in Tucson, Arizona. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two sons, Bennie H. Grigsby Jr. of Mountain View, California, and Mark Grigsby of Parsons.
He was preceded in death by two sisters, Justine Tunstall and Charlotte Grigsby.
The service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home in Chetopa. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery in Chetopa with military honors given by the Brown-Bishop Post No. 704, Veterans of Foreign Wars, of Parsons. Friends may call at the Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. Thursday.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the Organization for Autism Research and these may be left at or mailed to the Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home, P.O. Box 346, Chetopa, KS 67336.
Bennie H. Grigsby Sr., 87, of Chetopa died at 6:20 p.m. Saturday, April 22, 2017, at the Chetopa Manor in Chetopa.
He was born on April 6, 1930, in Wichita to Benjamin H. and Louise D. (Morgan) Grigsby. He grew up and attended schools in Wichita graduating from Wichita High School East in 1947. He then attended the University of Kansas before transferring to the University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Grigsby earned a bachelor of science degree in communication studies from UCLA. While at UCLA, he was a member of the ROTC program and later served in the United States Air Force. He continued his service to our country in the Air Force Reserves achieving the rank of major.
Mr. Grigsby worked in radio broadcasting for several years in Riverside and Los Angeles, California. He later owned and operated a television sales and repair business in Los Angeles. He retired and moved to Chetopa in 1989.
His hobbies included fishing, tinkering with electronics, model railroads, Ham radio and in earlier years bowling. He was an avid Los Angeles Dodgers fan. He had attended St. Paul United Methodist Church in Chetopa.
On April 18, 1953, he married Margaret Bassett in Tucson, Arizona. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two sons, Bennie H. Grigsby Jr. of Mountain View, California, and Mark Grigsby of Parsons.
He was preceded in death by two sisters, Justine Tunstall and Charlotte Grigsby.
The service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home in Chetopa. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery in Chetopa with military honors given by the Brown-Bishop Post No. 704, Veterans of Foreign Wars, of Parsons. Friends may call at the Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. Thursday.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the Organization for Autism Research and these may be left at or mailed to the Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home, P.O. Box 346, Chetopa, KS 67336.
He was born on April 6, 1930, in Wichita to Benjamin H. and Louise D. (Morgan) Grigsby. He grew up and attended schools in Wichita graduating from Wichita High School East in 1947. He then attended the University of Kansas before transferring to the University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Grigsby earned a bachelor of science degree in communication studies from UCLA. While at UCLA, he was a member of the ROTC program and later served in the United States Air Force. He continued his service to our country in the Air Force Reserves achieving the rank of major.
Mr. Grigsby worked in radio broadcasting for several years in Riverside and Los Angeles, California. He later owned and operated a television sales and repair business in Los Angeles. He retired and moved to Chetopa in 1989.
His hobbies included fishing, tinkering with electronics, model railroads, Ham radio and in earlier years bowling. He was an avid Los Angeles Dodgers fan. He had attended St. Paul United Methodist Church in Chetopa.
On April 18, 1953, he married Margaret Bassett in Tucson, Arizona. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two sons, Bennie H. Grigsby Jr. of Mountain View, California, and Mark Grigsby of Parsons.
He was preceded in death by two sisters, Justine Tunstall and Charlotte Grigsby.
The service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home in Chetopa. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery in Chetopa with military honors given by the Brown-Bishop Post No. 704, Veterans of Foreign Wars, of Parsons. Friends may call at the Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. Thursday.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the Organization for Autism Research and these may be left at or mailed to the Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home, P.O. Box 346, Chetopa, KS 67336.
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