STANLEY GRIMM

Stanley Grimm, husband, father, grandfather, lawyer, former circuit court

judge, and retired State of Missouri Court of Appeals judge, died September

27, 2012.

He and Jane Morgan of Sedalia, Missouri were married between semesters of

his first year in law school. His father, Rev. Victor Grimm, officiated at

the February 1, 1957 ceremony at Trinity Lutheran Church in Sedalia.

She survives. Other survivors include their three sons (all of whom are

attorneys) and their spouses, David and Beth of Austin, TX, Mark and Julie

of St. Louis, and John and Michelle of Cape Girardeau; seven grandchildren,

Alex who is attending Texas A&M University at College Station, Andrew who is

attending the University of Georgia in Athens, Morgan, Bridgette, and Reed

of St. Louis, and Natalie and Maggie of Cape Girardeau. In addition, a

brother, Bob of Los Altos, California, a brother-in-law, Stan Geiger of

Portland, Oregon and numerous nieces and nephews survive. His sister, Donna

Geiger, and his sister-in-law, Marion Grimm, predeceased him.

Stan was born April 28, 1933 in Macon, Missouri where he attended public

schools. In 1954, he received his B.S. in Business Administration from

Northeast Missouri State Teachers College (now Truman State). He spent the

next 21 months in the U.S. Army as an enlisted man, including 16 months in

Japan. In 1959, he received his L.L.B. from the University of Missouri

School of Law and he and Jane moved to Cape Girardeau where they became

members of St. Andrew Lutheran Church. He was active in church, serving as

chairman, chief elder, and chairman or member of numerous committees.

Stan was the first president of the Board of Directors of the Southeast

Missouri State College Lutheran Campus Center. He was heavily involved in

the formation and development of the Lutheran Home for the Aged and was

serving on its Board of Directors at the time of his death. He was also

active at Southeast Missouri Hospital, serving on the board from 1972 until

he accepted honorary status in 1992. While on the board, he chaired numerous

committees and was president of the board from 1983 to 1985.

Stan served on the board of the then Cape Girardeau County Association for

Retarded Children for 8 years, the Presbyterian Home for Children for 6

years, and the Greater Cape Girardeau Development Corporation for more than

40 years.

He practiced law from 1959 through 1972 with the law firms of Oliver &

Oliver and Rader and Grimm. In 1972, the people of Bollinger and Cape

Girardeau Counties elected him circuit judge for the 32nd circuit. He was

reelected without opposition in 1978 and 1984. In 1987, then Governor John

Ashcroft appointed him to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District

and he served on that court until 1998, when he resigned and became a

mediator and arbitrator. For a number of years, St. Louis Magazine has named

him as one of the best lawyers in the state in the area of alternative

dispute resolution.

In 1977, he served as president of the Missouri Council of Juvenile Court

Judges and in 1981 he served as president of the State Trial Judges

Association. In 1981, the Missouri Supreme Court appointed him as chairman

of the Committee on Jury Instructions and Charges-Criminal, which prepared

instructions that are used in every jury criminal case in Missouri.

In 1993, he received the Missouri Supreme Court Distinguished Service Award,

one of two judges to receive the initial award. In 2000, he received The

Missouri Bar Foundation's Spurgeon Smithson Award for extraordinary service

toward the increase and diffusion of justice in society. Last week, he

received the first Lifetime Achievement Award from Lutheran Family and

Children's Services of Missouri.

Visitation will be Sunday, September 30, 2012 from 4-8 p.m. at Ford & Sons

Mt. Auburn Funeral Home. A memorial service will be Monday, October 1, 2012

at 1:30 p.m. at St. Andrew Lutheran Church with Rev. Paul Short officiating.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorials be made to the

Lutheran Home for the Aged, 2825 Bloomfield Road, Cape Girardeau, MO 63703,

Saxony Lutheran High School, 2004 Saxony Memorial Drive, Jackson, MO 63755,

or a charity of your choice.

Online condolences may be shared at www.fordandsonsfuneralhome.com

Ford & Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.