Former Lemoore resident, Mary Grundon, 94, passes away surrounded by family

She worked in the Navy Medical Clinic, Mechanicsburg, PA, for the Federal Government, then as a supervisor in the Supply Department at the Indiantown Gap Army Reservation. 

In 1960, she and her friend, Emma Cerullo, drove across the country to Yuma, Arizona where she married John Grundon on July 25, 1960, in St Francis Catholic Church. She had two daughters born in the Baptist Hospital. They moved to Lompoc, CA, for a year and then settled in Fresno, CA, where a third daughter was born. With three pre-teen daughters, she followed John to Japan, where they lived for five years.

They toured often including trips to Korea and Macao. They returned to Lemoore, CA, in 1977. In 1978, the family traveled 9000 miles in five weeks around the country and Canada visiting relatives and friends along the way. At the Naval Air Station, Lemoore, California, Mary worked at the Naval Hospital. In 1985, while the kids were in college, she and John moved to Naples, Italy, where she again worked three years at the Naval Hospital.  She retired in 1988 after 20 years of service.  In 1991 they returned to Yuma.

Mary was a volunteer at the Yuma Regional Medical Center for 10 years with over 1500 hours served and, for ten years, volunteered summers at the Navopache Hospital in Show Low, AZ. She was a member of St Francis Catholic Church, Newcomer's Club, and was an avid bridge player. She and her husband took over 20 cruises including Pearls of the Mediterranean, Greece, and Turkey, the Hawaiian Islands, Mexican Riviera, East, and West Caribbean, Australia and New Zealand, and the Inland Alaskan cruise (twice, on their 25th and 50th wedding anniversaries).

Mary is survived by her husband of 60 years, John Grundon, daughters, Karen Haynes of Shawnee, Kansas, Lisa Grundon of Los Angeles, and Nancy Voy of Litchfield Park, AZ, five grandchildren, three nieces, and two nephews. She was preceded in death by her mother, father, sister, and brother.

Funeral Mass will be held at Immaculate Conception Church in Yuma on March 22, 2021, at 10:30 AM.  Rosary will be said at 10 AM.  She will be buried in Desert Lawn Memorial Park in Yuma at 11:30.

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