Bennie H. Grigsby, Sr.

Bennie H. Grigsby, Sr. 87, of Chetopa, died at 6:20 p.m., Saturday, April 22, 2017 at the Chetopa Manor in Chetopa, Kansas.

He was born on April 6, 1930 in Wichita, Kansas to Benjamin H. and Louise D. (Morgan) Grigsby.  He grew up and attended schools in Wichita graduating from Wichita High School East in 1947.  He then attended the University of Kansas before transferring to the University of California, Los Angeles.  Mr. Grigsby earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communication Studies from UCLA.  While at UCLA, he was a member of the ROTC Program and later served in the United States Air Force.  He continued his service to our country in the Air Force Reserves achieving the rank of Major.

Mr. Grigsby worked in radio broadcasting for several years in Riverside and Los Angeles, California.  He later owned and operated a television sales and repair business in Los Angeles.  He retired and moved to Chetopa, Kansas in 1989.

His hobbies included fishing, tinkering with electronics, model railroads, Ham radio, and in earlier years bowling.  He was an avid Los Angeles Dodgers fan.  He had attended St. Paul United Methodist Church in Chetopa.

On April 18, 1953, he and Margaret Bassett were married in Tucson, Arizona.  She survives of the home.

Survivors:

Wife – Margaret of the home

Two sons – Bennie H. Grigsby, Jr.                 Mountain View, California

Mark Grigsby                               Parsons, KS

He was preceded in death by two sisters, Justine Tunstall, and Charlotte Grigsby.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, April 28, 2017 at the Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home in Chetopa.  Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery in Chetopa with military honors given by the Brown-Bishop Post #704 Veterans of Foreign Wars of Parsons.  Friends may call at the Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home from 11:00 until 8:00 p.m., Thursday.

Memorial contributions are suggested to the Organization for Autism Research, these may be left at or mailed to the Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home, P.O. Box 346, Chetopa, KS 67336.

Online condolences may be left at www.forbeshoffman.com.