Huntsville, Alabama
March 12, 1925 – April 14, 2017 John H. Grinstead, Sr., 92, of Huntsville, passed away Friday. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended high school in Butlerville, Indiana. He served in the US Navy from 1942 to 1945 and was involved in the Normandy Invasion. As a Naval Gunner Merchant Marine,...
Read MoreTHE VERY VERY BEST PRINCIPAL...EVER MET...EVEN 10 YEARS AFTER WESTLAWN....He still remembered my name..A real Southern Icon.....THANK YOU PRINCIPAL GRINSTEAD!!!!!!
ROCKY MEDINA
April 09, 2024 | Friend
Oh my gosh.....a true GREAT GUY..!..was always friendly to everybody..said Hello to everyone......Bless you Mr. Grinstead...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Westlawn Jr. High School
April 09, 2023
My father was may best freind i miss him very much if he said something he backed it up he was always in my life and i was there at the end i told him the best father and a planner i told him my mother i would take care of her and you can go now and he did dad had a great life and trained me well and he will be the first person in heven that i want to see son michael love you dad
Michael Grinstead
July 29, 2017 | Huntsville, AL
When friends from our childhood get together we talk fondly of our time at Westlawn. Mr. Grinstead is talked about with some reverence. Some like myself, remember him for being strict. We laugh about being paddled and have many tales to tell. Mr Grinstead and Coach Vernon helped shape the early lives of many boys and girls. My wife was a teacher for Mr. Grinstead at Chapman. When she told him she was getting married in the summer he asked who she was marrying. She told him Danny Jordan and...
Danny Jordan
May 11, 2017 | HUntsville, AL
I remember Mr. Grinstead from my days at Chapman Jr. High in the mid to late 1960's.
Pamela Dyess
April 17, 2017 | Crestview, FL
I remember Mr. Grinstead fondly at my Jr. High principal. RIP
Belinda McCormick
April 17, 2017 | Huntsville, AL
John Grinstead will forever be in my thoughts for being the upright, no nonsense type person he was. I was one of his many students at Westlawn and I received my first paddling from him when I was in the 7th grade. Things were much simpler back then. If you misbehaved, a teacher just had you stand outside her door and wait for Mr Grinstead to come by on his stroll through the hall. He would paddle you then ask the teacher what you did to be put out in the hall! How things have changed...
Walker McGinnis
April 16, 2017 | Huntsville, AL
I had the pleasure of knowing Mr. Grinstead for about 45 years. I met him when I worked at Bartee Lumber and sold him the storm windows for his house. H e was a honorable man and a real pleasure to have had his friendship over the years. May God Bless his family and may Mr. John RIP.
Jacky Bentley
Jacky Bentley
April 16, 2017 | Guntersville, AL
He gave me my first Teaching job in 1966- He was a good man - he has a special place in my life-
James Crocker
April 16, 2017 | Rainbow City, AL
