Wilma E. Grimes

Wilma E. (Cozad) Grimes, 98, of Newton, died Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014, at the Newton Health Care Center in Newton. A funeral service will be at 11 a.m., Friday, Dec. 26 at the Wallace Family Funeral Home in Newton. The family will greet friends from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 26 at the funeral home. Burial will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 26, at the Oakview Cemetery in Albia.

Memorials to the donor’s choice may be left at the funeral home. Memorials may also be mailed to the funeral home please add, Attn: Grimes Family on the envelope.

Those left to honor Wilma’s memory are her sons, Dean (Ilene) Grimes of Grand Mound, Joe (Doris) Grimes of Bettendorf, Gary (Connie) Grimes of Newton, Dwight (Jeannette) Grimes of Newton, Hoyt (Jill) Grimes of Newton and Randy (Pam) Grimes of Arkansas; 15 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and her sisters-in-law, Billie Hess of North Carolina and Linda Cozad of Centerville.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Richard in 1959; brothers, Dale, LeRoy, Ronnie and Irwin.