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uthorWillis Martin Grimes, the Destin resident who authored Turnip Greens and Sergeant Stripes” and “The HappyTheWednesdayfor about a year and recently had started publishing a magazine called The Happy Hound which was for“distribution throughout the Southern States and a few decent Northern locations.”Grimes was a retired U.S. Army first sergeant who with his family started visiting Fort Walton Beach a couple of years ago. In the first issue of “The Happy Hound” he wrote that he had finally found the perfect place to live and v Id never leave Destin He wrote in the same issue that, “To me, being rich is when I have enough left over for a six-pack after I’ve paid my many bills. My idea of a socialite is a person who wears fairly clean and matching socks.”Grimes’ favorite review of his first book was one whichTwainArmyjoined the regular army prior to World War II...”Stories in “The Happy Rebel” were taken from unpublished novels Grimes had written. In his magazine Grimes wrote that ”U$ Younguns up in Walker County was taught to respect a man if he could hold his likker, loved ole folks, pretty ladies and puppy dogs We grew up Po’ and Proud, none of us younguns ever got anv toys for ChristmasWHell! If n I hadn’t been a liJ ole Bqy.todayMcLaughlin Mortuary Chapel with Rev. Talmadge Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Beal Memorial Cemetery with full military honorssurvivedhis wife. Mrs. Acie D. Grimes of Destin; four daughters, Mrs. Gerry Lynn Ingram of Birmingham. Ala , Mrs. Bobbie J Lane of Pensacola, Miss Gail Grimes and Miss Ann Grimes,Destin; and one son, CarlDestin
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Fort Walton Beach Playground Daily News
Fort Walton Beach, Florida, US
Fri, Oct 18, 1974
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