Marshall D. Grimshaw November 8, 1926 to February 17, 2011

Blue Hill resident Marshall D. Grimshaw (85) died February 17, 2011 at Mary Lanning Memorial HealthCare in Hastings.
Services are 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Blue Hill with Rev. Joshua Lowe officiating.  Burial with military rites by A.L. Shirley Post #176 of Blue Hill will be at Trinity Lutheran Cemetery in Blue Hill.  Visitation is one hour prior to services at the church.
 Memorials can be given to the Arthritis Foundation.
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Marshall D. Grimshaw was born on November 8, 1926 to Hiram and Wilhelmina (Stuann) Grimshaw in Peoria, Ill.  His mother died when he was eight days old.  He was raised by his father and his step-mother Alma.  When he was seventeen, he joined the Navy during World War II . 
He married Phyllis V Ruhs on March 8, 1969, in Peoria, Ill. 
He worked for Caterpillar in Peoria, Ill, as a time keeper and retired in 1982. 
Marshall and Phyllis had a landscaping business, he loved trees, the outdoors and the home they built together near Blue Hill.
They moved to Blue Hill from Peoria, Ill in 1990.
He is survived by his mother-in-law, Leona Ruhs of Blue Hill, Nebraska; one sister, Marian Kempin of Lafayette, Ind;  one brother-in-law, Walter Schneckenburger of Peoria, Ill, and many nieces and nephews.
He was proceded in death by his parents; his wife, Phyllis (December 13, 2010); one sister Judith Schneckenburger; one brother-in-law, Renie Kempin.