Chick Grimsley Dies in Chicago. --Funeral services for Lannie C. "Chick" Grimsley, who died in Chicago May 4 [1954] will be held Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. The last rites will be conducted by Rev. A. Bernard Gravdal at Trinity Lutheran church with burial in Choteau cemetery. The body arrived in Choteau this morning. Banks Funeral Home will direct. A full obituary will be published in the next issue of this paper. [N.T.-Transcribed with the express permission of the Choteau Acantha, edition, May 6, 1954.]
Funeral Rites Held for Chick Grimsley.
--Last rites were conducted at Choteau, Friday afternoon for Lonnie G. [sic Lannie C.] Grimsley, 81, who passed away on Tuesday of last week at the home of friends, Mr. and Mrs. George Gleason of Chicago.
--The Rev. A. Bernard Gravdal officiated at the funeral services at Trinity Lutheran Church, and burial followed in the Choteau cemetery.
--Pallbearers were Tom Larson, James Peebles, Ray Gibler, John Moore, Al Peterson and George McKee.
--The pioneer Teton county packer, hunter and guide was one of the most well-known early day cattlemen and mountain me in this area, with a rich background of early-day experiences relating to his the cowboy era. From the story of his early life in Montana, the Columbia Broadcasting system in 1947 broadcast several tales of his mountain adventures near here, for which the adventurer's club, whom Grimsley was visiting in Chicago, received a payment of $500. That club honored Grimsley with a banquet and introduced him to a number of unusual people, including the U.S. Fire Marshal from the war department. On the same occasion he was escorted through Chicago streets by an honor guard of Chicago police.
--Grimsley was born at Jonesboro, Tenn., Oct. 8, 1872, and went to Texas as a young man, in about 1892. Shortly thereafter he is reputed to have come with one of the last trail herds to traverse the Chisholm trail north from Texas. When he arrived in Teton County he worked for various cattle outfits among them the 7 Block outfit. About 1906 he quit the cattle spreads and went trapping and hunting on his own. That year he became acquainted with Oscar Olney and the two mountain men became fast friends.
--Later he and his brother, Cleave Grimsley, operated a ranch west of Bynum and were guides and packers in the mountain area to the west. Cleave passed away in 1945 and Chick continued to operate the business for a short while until infirmities forced his retirement.
--The Gleasons, with whom he stayed in Chicago, were friends whom Grimsley had taken on pack trips in canyons in this vicinity.
--Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Rose Bowser, and two brothers, Coy and Gilbert, all of Swink, Colo. The sister and Coy Grimsley attended the service here, as did a nephew, Marshall, of Worland, Wyo. Mrs. Gleason accompanied the body to Choteau. [N.T.-Transcribed with the express permission of the Choteau Acantha, edition, May 13, 1954.]