Eloise Driggers Grimes

June 12, 1936 - April 11, 2019

Pinetta, Florida; Mrs. Eloise Driggers Grimes, age 82, passed away April ,11, 2019 at her home in Pinetta. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Thursday, April 18, 2019 in the chapel of T. J. Beggs, Jr. & Sons, Madison, Florida with Rev. Homer McMillan II officiating, interment will follow in Fellowship Cemetery near Sirmans, Florida. The family will receive friends Wednesday evening from 6:00 "" 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home. She was born and raised in Wimauma, Florida. She married Jim Perry Grimes in 1951 who was in the U.S. Air Force at the time, so she lived all over the U.S. and also in Germany before moving back to this area in 1972. She enjoyed gardening, fishing, cooking, sewing, riding down dirt roads and her beloved pets. She was a member of Sirmans Baptist Church. She was predeceased by her parents, five brothers, two sisters, her husband, Retired Army Staff Sergeant, Jim Perry Grimes of twenty-six years, and their eldest son, Travis A. Grimes. She is survived by three children, Darlene Doty (Doug) of Lee, Tonia Grimes of Pinetta and Jim P. Grimes, Jr. (Melissa) of Perry, A sister, Phyllis Ann Jackson (J.L.) of Sirmans 9 grandchildren 9 great grandchildren.