Belah Grimes

Services for Belah L. Grimes, 73, of Copperas Cove will be 10 a.m. today in Oakland Cemetery in Oakland.

Mrs. Grimes died Sunday, August 3, in a Copperas Cove nursing center.

She was born May 21, 1935 in Corpus Christi. She was raised in Alice; attended Del Mar Collage in Corpus Christie; and married George B. Grimes in 1956. He preceded her in death. She worked as a book binder, equipment assembler, and later as a home health care providerin Jacksonville, member of Church of Christ, and a former member of TOPPS.

Honorary pallbears are Chad and Dusten Grimes, Fred Strayhorn, Eric Passmore, Tim Porter, and Kenneth Lusk.

She is survived by her sons, Dale and his wife Theda Grimes and Geral Grimes of Jacksonville and Dean Grimes of Dallas; daughter, Jewel and her husband Tim Porter of Copperas Cove; sisters Elna Sciba of Houston and Gladys Hinze of Rogers, AR; 10 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Arrangements are being handled by Harper Talasek Funeral Home of Killeen.

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