Robert R. Greiner

Memorial services for Robert R. Greiner will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 20, 2008 at the First Christian Church in Trenton.

Burial of cremains will be at the Trenton Masonic Cemetery with military graveside rites by the Joseph L. Norton VFW Post 919 of Trenton.
Mr. Greiner, an 86-year-old resident of Trenton, died at 3:20 a.m. on Sunday, June 15, 2008 at his home after a courageous battle with cancer. He had been under hospice care. The body was cremated under the direction of Whitaker-Eads Funeral Home.
The only child of Leo A. and Lucretia F. Roe Greiner, this city boy from Toledo, OH was born on Oct. 1, 1921 in Defiance, OH, the youngest grandson of a French immigrant tailor. He attended parochial schools, but was a better basketball player than student. His fine voice earned him a place in the high school choir. He spent many summers at his Uncle Addison’s farm, where he learned to hunt small birds and to fish.
While serving his country during World War II as a sergeant in the Army Air Corps, this dapper and handsome young soldier met Trenton’s hometown girl, Shirley M. Ellis, while they were working in an airplane factory. The were wed on Sept. 28, 1945 in Omaha, NE.
He was a self-made man. His successful career with Graybar Electric as district sales manager kept Shirley and the girls busy, moving from state to state, as Bob climbed the corporate ladder. But summers were always spent at “the cabin” on Big Island Lake in Marcell, MN.
Bob and Shirley traveled for nearly 10 years as “snowbirds,” spending winters in Weslaco, TX and summers at the cabin, which Bob nicknamed “Pukwana Point.” Bob was an angler and fisherman, a carpenter and cabinet maker, a master carver, an artist, a golfer and the family historian.
About 1992, Shirley finally convinced Bob to give up his gypsy ways and move back home to Trenton, where they lived on Town and Country Lane so Bob could play a few holes of golf now and then.
Bob shared his time and talents, volunteering in service to this community in numerous organizations, including the First Christian Church, the Joseph L. Norton VFW Post No. 919, the Trenton Lions, the Riverside Country Club, the Grundy County Museum and the Grundy County Historical Society.
Bob is survived by his devoted and beloved wife, Shirley, and their four daughters, Cheryl Ann Bibler of Kerville, TX, Barbara Lynn Janson of Scottsdale, AZ, Janet Sue Kinney of Cleburne, TX and Patricia Marie Travis of Scottsdale; their husbands; and seven grandchildren, Eric J. Louvre, Clayton M. Janson, Mrs. Stephanie C. Davis, Dameon L. Travis, Mrs. Randi R. Roe Abbott, Mrs. Courtney Ware and Nathan Robert Kinney.
Memorials have been suggested to the First Christian Church of the American Cancer Society