Grenville, Winifred Marie Regier (1915-2010)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2010 May 24 p. 9

Birth date: 1915 Feb 24

text of obituary:

WINIFRED GRENVILLE

Winifred Marie (Regier) Grenville, 95, of Salem, Ore., died April 10, 2010. She was born Feb. 24, 1915, to John Milton and Elizabeth (Lohrentz) Regier in Versailles, Mo.

During her youth she lived in Freeman, S.D., Pandora, Ohio, Reedley, Calif., and Newton, Kan., where her father served as a pastor of Mennonite churches. She attended Reedley Junior College and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Bethel College, North Newton, Kan., in 1937. In 1938 she attended Washington School of Nursing in St. Louis, Mo., and the next year the University of California, Berkeley.

Her real calling and passion was office work, and she was employed as an executive secretary for many years. She retired from Northern Natural Gas Co. in Omaha, Neb., in 1972. While in Omaha she met John Grenville, whom she married May 4, 1956.

They loved to travel, and also knew they wanted to eventually retire on the west coast. Vacations were spent touring different areas along the Pacific Ocean. By the time they retired they knew they wanted to live in the Salem/Woodburn area, and they bought a home in Woodburn Senior Estates. In 1976 they moved to Salemtowne, a retirement community in Salem. In 1992 they moved to Capital Manor in Salem, where she lived until the time of her death. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Salem.

Survivors include a brother-in-law, two sisters-in-law, five nieces and a nephew.

She was preceded in death by her husband, John, on July 30, 2001; and by two brothers, Robert B. Regier and John Stanley Regier.