L. C. Griswold

L.C. Griswold, 68, of 159 Sulphur Springs Road, Asheville, died Friday, January 4, 2002, in an Asheville hospital. Mr. Griswold was a son of the late Lynn D. and Willie Mae Tipton Griswold and was married to Judith Mills Griswold who died in September, 1999. He was also preceded in death by an aunt and uncle, Dorothy and Frank Honeycutt. He was a Navy veteran of the Korean Conflict and was a member of VFW Post 3040. He was a 1952 graduate of Woodfin High School and also graduated from Blanton’s Business College. He had been active with the West Asheville Little League program. He retired as an account cost clerk at Cranston and more recently worked for Park’s Oriental Florist. He is survived by one daughter, Kathy Woods and her husband Christopher of Asheville; two sons, Jeff Griswold and his wife Amy of Asheville and Kyle Griswold and his fiancee Brenda McCurry of Charleston, SC; four grandchildren, Jonas, Kirsten, and Jonathan Griswold and Cheyann Woods; five sisters, Betty Swann of Simpsonville, SC, Katherine Russell of Sunland, CA, Linda Sternberg of San Diego, CA, Brenda Thornburg of Lake View Terrace, CA, and Janice Lequin of Lancaster, CA; and two brothers, Darrell Griswold of Ponte Vedra, FL and Jerry Griswold of Maryland. Funeral services will be at 11:00 am Monday in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral Home with the Rev. Bobby Winebarger officiating. Military honors will be provided by the Buncombe COunty Veterans Council at the Western Carolina State Veterans Cemetery, Black Mountain. His family will receive friends from 7 - 8:30 pm Saturday at the funeral home and request that in lieu of flowers donations be made to the Graham D. Meadows VFW Post 3040, PO Box 16201, Asheville, NC 28816, or to the American Lung Association, PO Box 2702, Asheville, NC 28802.