Samuel Grigg

Samuel Parley Grigg, 83, longtime Moses Lake resident, passed away Sunday, July 19, 2015 at Lakeview Home Care in Moses Lake. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, July 24, 2015 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Rose Street Chapel. Burial will follow at Guarding Angels Cemetery in Moses Lake. Robert Boston of the LDS 3rd ward will officiate. President Reid Baker of the Moses Lake, Washington Stake will preside. The family will greet friends at the funeral home on Thursday evening from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. and at the church on Friday morning from 9 a.m. until 9:45 a.m. Arrangements are in care of Kayser's Chapel of Memories. Please sign the online guestbook or leave a note for the family at www.kayserschapel.com

Sam was born August 13, 1931 in Star, Idaho to the late William Alexander and Margaret Emily Covington Grigg. At the age of 6 he moved with his family to Harper, Oregon where he was raised and educated. He enlisted in the US Air Force on January 4, 1951 and served his country faithfully. He was honorably discharged in 1954. He served a full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Central States Mission from 1955 until 1957. Following his mission he attended Brigham Young University. He married Peggy Louise Steele for time and all eternity on September 18, 1958 in the LDS Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah. They made their home in Provo, Utah until the summer of 1959 when they moved to Harper, Oregon where Sam continued the longtime Grigg heritage as a beekeeper.

They made their home in Meridian, Idaho for a time where he worked for Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation as a service representative on the Multilith line of offset printing machines, using skills acquired in the military.

They moved to Moses Lake in April of 1968 where Sam worked for his brother, Don at Grigg Apiaries. He later purchased 1500 colonies of bees and started Grigg's Sun Basin Apiaries.

In 1978 he sold the business and continued working in the beekeeping industry. He was the production manager of Silverbow Honey and retired in 1994.

Sam was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where he held various leadership positions. Sam also served as a temple worker at the Columbia River Temple. He held the office of seventy and served in three separate bishoprics. Additionally he served in numerous youth callings including scout master.

Sam is survived by his loving wife Peggy; 5 sons and daughters-in-law, Spencer & Ruth, Scott & Kelly, Shaun & Tammy, Stuart & Jennifer and Stacey & LaNae; his sister, Faye Jones; his brother-in-law, Steve Grout, who lived in the family home for many years; 15 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces, nephews and extended family.

Besides his parents, Sam was preceded in death by his brothers Frank and Don and his sisters Ila and Norma.