Surnames: GRAY GROSBIER MICHELS ESSELMAN

----Source: Tribune-Record Gleaner (Clark County, WI) 03/20/2002

Gray, Marguerite E. (2 AUG 1921 - 13 MAR 2002)

Marguerite E. Gray, 80, Colby, Clark County, formerly of Riverside, Ill., and Superior, died on Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at the Colonial Center, Colby. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 16, at St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Loyal. The Rev. Roman Kaiser officiated. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery, Superior.

Marguerite Elinor Grosbier was born on Aug. 2, 1921, in Marshfield, to Roland and Anna (nee Michels) Grosbier. She was raised in Marshfield, attended Sacred Heart School, and graduated from McKinley High School in 1939. She completed the St. Joseph's School of Nursing program in 1942, and then served with the Army Nurse Corps in the European Theatre during World War II. After her discharge, she worked as a nurse at the VA Hospital, Tomah. She married Maurice Gray on Oct. 7, 1950, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Marshfield. They moved to Riverside, Ill., and both worked at the West Side VA Hospital, Chicago. She worked at the VA Hospital for 10 years, then took a position as head nurse of the medical department of Continental Bank of Chicago. She retired from Continental Bank and traveled with her husband. They moved to Superior in 1998. She entered the Colonial Center, Colby, in August 1999, and resided there until the time of her death. She was a Girl Scout leader.

Survivors include two brothers, Gordon (Joyce) Grosbier, Albuquerque, N.M., and Roland (Marion) Grosbier, Montrose, Colo. one sister, Virginia (Clem) Esselman, Loyal and nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Preceding her in death were her husband, Maurice, in May 1999 her parents and one brother, Robert Grosbier.