TITLE:  Esther Lorraine Henigin Grimm

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier

SUBMITTED BY:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, Jun 2003

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GRIMM, Esther
PORT ROYAL, SC - Esther Lorraine Henigin Grimm, 74, passed away at 
Beaufort Memorial Hospital on Monday, October 8, 2001 at 10:15 p.m. 
Services will be 7:00 p.m. Thursday, October 11, at Copeland Funeral 
Home with visitation at 6:00 p.m. Mrs. Grimm was born April 27, 1927 
in Blairsville, Penn., a daughter of Thomas L. and Oneida Hogue 
Henigin. She attended S.S. Simon and Jude and Blairsville High Schools.
She lived the first part of her life in the Blairsville, Indiana and 
Pittsburgh areas. She worked for the James Drilling Corp. in 
Blairsville, Brody's Department Store in Indiana and in finance at 
the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She was also a volunteer with 
United Way of Pittsburgh. She lived in the South Carolina low country 
for over 20 years. She worked for Mary's Fashions Store in Mt. 
Pleasant and later managed the Vita Villa Health Food Store in 
Beaufort for many years. Upon retiring, she volunteered at The Red 
Door, a thrift shop which benefits Friends of Carolina Hospice. On 
April 21, 1991, Mrs. Grimm became a minister with the Alliance of 
Divine Love (ADL), an organization devoted to the promotion of peace, 
and the bringing of hope and joy through the giving, receiving and 
expansion of divine love. She was a member of Carteret Street United 
Methodist Church. Mrs. Grimm was preceded in death by her son, Stanley 
Robert Shearer and a sister, Elizabeth L. (Henigan) Stiles. Survivors 
include her daughter, Virginia E. (Shearer) Hensley of Fripp Island, 
SC; a brother Leo T. Henigin of Natrona Heights, PA; two sisters, 
Alice O. Iverson of Schenectady, NY and Patricia I. Short of 
Blairsville, PA; her step-mother, Ruth (Smith) Henigin of Blairsville, 
PA; her five grandchildren, Laura Christine (Hensley) Ratcliffe and 
Malia Lorraine (Hensley) Cooler, both of Beaufort, Cheryl Lynn 
(Shearer) Claunch of Dallas, OR, Robert James Shearer of Roswell, GA 
and Stanley Robert Shearer, Jr. of Pittsburgh, PA; two 
great-granddaughters, Maria Nicole Cooler of Beaufort and Emma Lauren 
Shearer of Roswell, GA and several nieces and nephews. (Published Oct 
11, 2001)
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