Elaine "Corky" Grimes

"Corky" Elaine Gage Grimes passed away on July 14th, 2022 peacefully at her home in San Saba. She was born on May 1, 1928, in Brownwood, TX to Joseph "Pick" Gage and Ethel Inez Long Gage. She grew up at Rough Creek in San Saba County, which is where she started school. She went to school there for two years and then started the third grade in Cherokee. She had two sisters, Natalie, and Betty Jo. The girls and Inez stayed in an apartment in Cherokee during the week to attend school and went home on the weekends. She went to school in Cherokee through her sophomore year and then moved to San Saba. She attended school for a total of 11 years and graduated from San Saba High School in 1945. When she was young, they lived on a farm, and she helped her Daddy in the field and drove the tractor and combine while cutting grain. She enjoyed playing in the creek with her sisters. They wandered the countryside entertaining themselves along the way and spent most days by the trees where the sheep bedded down by Cherokee Creek. They enjoyed singing as loud as they could like they were in church, to the point their Mama would run them out of the house. After graduation, at the age of 17, she went to work as a bookkeeper at the Lumber Yard in San Saba. On May 10th, 1947, she married Billy Joe Grimes and they had three children Billy Dan "Willie", Josephine "Josie" and Janis K "Jan". In 1965 she went to work for Dr. Farley and Dr. Felts as a bookkeeper and worked for them for 15 years. In 1987 she went to work for Odean and Johnny Flo Ray in the electrical and air conditioning business. Following that, at the age of 60 she went to work at Eventide Nursing Home in San Saba. She worked for the nursing home for 21 years and retired at the age of 82 in 2010. The greatest enjoyments of her life were attending rodeo's and supporting her grand children and great grand children's events. She loved fishing, dancing, sewing/quilting, Dallas Cowboys football, watching wrestling on tv, George Strait, eating ice cream and a good game of 42 dominos. She had the sweetest soul and the kindest heart of anyone. She is loved by many and will be dearly missed by those who were blessed to know her. She is preceded in death by her parents, Joseph "Pick" Gage and Inez Long Gage and two sisters Natalie Hamrick and Betty Jo Phillips. Corky is survived by her 3 children, Willie Grimes and his wife Jan of Stephenville, Josie McLendon of Gordon and Jan Hooten and husband Bub of Lometa. She has six grandchildren, Dale Grimes and wife Traci of Stephenville, Jake Hamilton and his wife Ashely of Stephenville, Becky Hooten Schwandner and her husband Henry of Freer, Laura Hooten Broyles and her husband Walt of Mason, Arron McLendon of Gordon and Matt McLendon of Gordon. She has eleven great grandchildren Westyn Grimes, Maddi Grimes McGee and her husband Hunter, Jade Hamilton, Shane Hamilton, Hayden Goodwin, Harper Schwandner, Laney Lastly, Kimbrea Broyles, Cealey Broyles, Echo McLendon and May McLendon.

Elaine "Corky" Grimes

May 1, 1928 - July 14, 2022