GRIMES, David Ray
Source: "Obituaries - Year - 1950 Volume B" from the Covington Public Library. 8 May 1959
David Ray Grimes, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Grimes of Veedersburg Route 4, waded into Coal Creek about a quarter of a mile southwest of Aylesworth at 6:40 p.m. Tuesday and drowned.
Rescue operations by State and County officials and Attica firemen took an hour and 35 minutes to recover the body from 12 feet of water,
David, a Shawnee Township 7th grader, walked to the creek from the home of his uncle, Robert Cox to the bend where his cousin, Billy Joe Cox had been fishing and swimming. Billy Joe, 14, was leaving when David decided to wade in. He did not know how to swim. He immediately waded into water over his head.
Calls for help by Billy Joe brought his father and David's father, who both dove in to try to find the boy. Raymond Grimes remained at the scene throughout the ordeal and was said to have first hooked his son's swim trunks from a boat that was brought to the scene by Ray Frodge of Attica.
Coroner Ralph Nelson pronounced the boy dead at the scene.
David, who lives two miles east of Aylesworth, was born December 13, 1944 at Danville. He attended Shawnee School, & Union Church. His father is employed at National Homes, Inc., Lafayette,
Surviving with the parents are a brother, Gordon, in the U.S. Army at Aberdeen, Md., brothers Kenneth and Larry and sisters, Doris and Deborah at home, the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Grimes of Attica and the great-grandmother, Mrs. Clara Cox of Veedersburg, and several aunts, uncles and cousins.
Services will be held today (Friday) at 2:00 at the Nazarene Church in Veedersburg with the Rev. Buskirk, officiating minister. Burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery in Attica with the Fishero Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. - jz