Cherry Beth Grinstead || Obituary

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Cherry Beth Grinstead, 78, of Paris, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, at Baylor-Scott & White in Plano.

Bright-Holland Funeral Home has scheduled services for 3:00 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22nd at Springlake Baptist Church with Rev. Guille Seigler & Rev. Mike Clark officiating. The family will receive friends from 5 – 6 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Grinstead, the daughter of Leroy & Iona Riggins Hayes, was born Sept. 6, 1943, in Naples, TX.

For more than 20 years, she worked for the Paris High School Cafeteria in Dietary Services where she was an award-winning employee. Cherry was an excellent baker and won the Pillsbury Baking Competition here in Paris. 

She was a faithful member of Springlake Baptist Church and a member of the Red Hat Society. 

Known to have a green thumb, she loved plants and flowers. Never one to sit still, Cherry enjoyed traveling, cruises, and road trips.

Her parents, a sister, Laverna June Hopkins, and a cousin, Kay Halley, preceded her in death.

Survivors include her husband, Larry Grinstead, whom she married in Nov. 22, 1962, building fifty-nine years of family and memories, two sons, Gregory Grinstead and Christopher Grinstead, grandchildren, Colton Grinstead, Dacey Dingman & wife Brittany, Dillon Dingman & wife Nancy, and Tyler Grinstead, two great-grandchildren, Spencer Dingman and Derek Dingman, a brother, Jamie Hayes, a sister-in-law, Elizabeth Werneke & husband Marvin, a brother-in-law, William A. Grinstead & wife Cheryl, and a cousin Judy Riggins Griffin along with several nieces & nephews and a host of friends.

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