Frances Chesteen Grimes

May 7, 2011

Frances Chesteen Grimes, 85, of Walnut Hill died Saturday May 07, 2011, in Pensacola. She was a retired bus driver with the Escambia County (Fla.) School District.

She was born in New Orleans on October 20, 1925, to the late Marion White and Roberta Eunice Dotson Merritt.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence Grimes and a brother, James Merritt.

She is survived by three sons, Kenneth Tyson of Bay Minette, James Tyson of Harriett Bluff, GA, and Robert “Skeeter” Tyson of Killen, AL: two daughters, Frances Tyson Vaughn of Seguin, TX, Dottie Ann Davis of Walnut Hill; 14 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be Monday May 9, 2011, at 10 a.m. from the Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home Chapel in Atmore with Bro. Ted Bridges and Bro. James Boyd officiating. Interment will follow in the Walnut Hill Baptist Church Cemetery. Active Pallbearers will be Christopher Tyson, Clinton Davis, Byron Vaughn, John K, Vaughn, Thomas “Ty” Tyson and Lee Minor Tyson.

Family will receive friends Sunday evening May 8, 2011, at Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m.

Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home is in charge of all arrangements.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under Obituaries