Funeral services for Bertha Lee (Grigg) McCuan, who died Saturday, October 8, 2011 at her residence, will be held at 11:00am Saturday, October 15, 2011 in Waldo Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Randy Reddell of Central Christian Church, officiating. Interment will follow at West Hill Cemetery with Wayne Grigg, Ty Grigg, Gary Shields, Horace Groff, Hulen Chandler, and Charles Case serving as pallbearers.
Mrs. McCuan was born in Howe, Texas, on July 24, 1919, the daughter of Frank Irvin Grigg and Lee Ola (Butridge) Grigg. She moved to Sherman with her parents when she was six years old and attended Sherman Schools, graduating from Sherman High School, and attending Austin College. She married Noble McCuan on February 2, 1946, in Sherman. He precedes her in death.
She was a lifetime member of Central Christian Church, where she served as Church secretary and as a Sunday school teacher. During World War II she was employed as a Clerk-Stenographer at Perrin Air Force Base, and at the time of her death she was a retired Deputy County Clerk having worked in the Grayson County Courthouse for 21 years.
Mrs. McCuan was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Homer Irvin Grigg and Don Clinton Grigg, an infant sister, Evelyn, a sister-in-law, Margaret Abbott Grigg Atkins and a nephew, Kenneth Grigg.
She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Walter Ronald and Teresa McCuan, of Austin, Texas; a son and daughter-in-law, Donald Franklin and Carolyn McCuan, of Centennial, Colorado; a sister-in-law, Fay Grigg of Sherman; two grand-children, Charles Lee McCuan of Houston, TX, and Michelle Lynette McCuan of Austin. Also surviving is a niece, Tricia Grigg, and nephews, Wayne and Larry Grigg; great-nephews, Ty and Jason Grigg; a great niece, Holly Grigg Pedigo; and two great-great nephews.
Family visitation will be held Friday evening, October 14, from 6-7pm at the funeral home. Condolences may be registered online at www.waldofuneralhome.com.
Memorials may be made to Central Christian Church, 401 South Travis St., Sherman, Texas 75090.
Services are under the direction of Waldo Funeral Home, located at 619 North Travis St.,Sherman.