Individual Details

Name: Grover C Tirey
Birth Year: 1916
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Texas
State of Residence: Texas
County or City: Ellis
Enlistment Date: 14 Jan 1941
Enlistment State: Texas
Enlistment City: Dallas
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Branch Code: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency,
plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 4 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Shipping and receiving clerks
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 76
Weight: 195
Source Information: National Archives and Records Administration. U.S. World War II Army
Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

Posted at findagrave.com: WWII Veteran. Service Center Operator in a Service Station. Married at time of death. Usual address Route 1 Oklaunion, Wilbarger, Texas.
Died June 4, 1970 Highway 287 13 1/10 miles East of Vernon, Texas. MVA Head on collision with another vehicle. Burial June 6, 1970 Wilbarger Memorial Park by James Sullivan.

Wichita Falls Times, Wichita Falls, Texas, Friday, June 5, 1970, Page 24, Col. 3: Harrold Crash Claims 2 Lives. Vernon, Tex. (Special)---Two men were killed at 7:26 p.m. Thursday on U. S. 287 about one mile east of Harrold when their automobiles collided. Dead were Grover C. Tirey, 53, of Oklaunion and Robert E. Overstreet, 27, of Floydada, Tex.

Texas Highway Patrolman Gerald Howard of Vernon investigated. Tirey, owner of Tirey Service Center, one mile east of east of Harrold, had lived in Wilbarger County since 1945. Born July 8, 1916, in Maypearl, Tex., he married Gertrude Williams in Frederick, Okla., July 4, 1941. Survivors include his wife; one son, Ronald of Harrold; and his mother, Mrs. Ethel Mercer of Dallas.

Services will be at 4 p.m. Saturday in Vernon First Baptist Church. The Rev. Preson Manley, Petrolia minister and the Rev. Jack Duncan, Oklaunion pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Wilbarger Memorial Park under direction of Sullivan Funeral Home.

Overstreet's'' body is being returned to Floydada for burial.

Birth	8 Jul 1916	Maypearl, Ellis Co., Texas
Marriage	25 Oct 1941	4 July 1941 Frederick, Oklahoma, Miller Co., Arkansas - Ola Gertrude Williams
other	25 Oct 1941
Death	4 Jun 1970	Wilbarger Co., Texas
Residence		Door Co., Wisconsin
Burial		Wilbarger Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger Co., Texas

Spouse	Ola Gertrude Williams (1919 - 2000)
Child	Grover Edgar Tirey (1942 - 1965)
Child	Ronald Charles Tirey (1946 - 2009)

Father	Grover Cleveland Tirey (1888 - 1957)
Mother	Ethel Mae Barnes (1894 - 1977)