Leonard Leroy Grimes ’47

Leonard Leroy Grimes ’47 of Marshalltown, Iowa, died on January 4, 2015. He was born and raised in Marshalltown and enrolled in Iowa State University. He enlisted in the Marines and was assigned to Dartmouth in the Marine V-12 unit. In college he majored in government. After military service he returned to graduate and then earned an LL.B. from Harvard Law School. As of his 25th reunion in 1972 he was a partner in the law firm of Tyer, Mills, Grimes and Peterson in Marshalltown. In the mid-1950s he served as the town’s mayor. His expanding law practice enabled him to serve as municipal attorney for several towns in Marshall County. In 1964 he and his wife bought a farm and labored to restore the woods that had once covered the area. By 1985 they had planted more than 250,000 trees and he was named American Forest Foundation Tree Farmer of the Year. He is survived by children Roger ’70, Kyle ’78, Carrie and Martha.