Grant T. Dostert

Grant T. Dostert

07/18/1937-09/03/2025

Grant Dostert, beloved husband, father, father-in-law, grandfather, brother, and friend, passed away at home in Bedford, Texas surrounded by loved ones. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Linda Dostert, sons, Mark and Jonathan, Jonathan’s wife, Melissa, their sons, Jack and Luke, along with younger brothers Craig and Brent, and nephews and nieces, Troy, Trent, Carley, and Sarah. He was preceded in death by his older brother, Bruce, and his parents, Lewis and Ramona Dostert.

Born on July 18, 1937 on Chicago’s north side, Grant grew up playing street hockey and “crack the whip” with Bruce and their friends on snow-banked frozen fields at Kelvyn Park. They spotted Cubs player Andy Pafko at a local drugstore and attended games at Wrigley Field before it had lights. His family moved to LaGrange, Illinois around 1950 where Grant came to love playing golf after learning how to hitchhike to Edgewood Valley Country Club to work as a caddy in his mid-teens. When he wasn’t playing golf, he and his friends were tinkering with and repairing each other’s cars. Grant graduated from Lions Township High School in 1955 and started college in Michigan. He and Bruce joined their parents and younger brothers moving to southern California where Grant graduated from Fresno State University. He began working full-time for the claims/adjustments department at Continental Insurance in downtown Los Angeles. There he met Linda Lee Green. They married in April 1966 in a ceremony in her native Fort Worth, Texas. After a five-year stint with Continental in Honolulu, Hawaii, Grant and Linda moved with Mark and Jonathan to Bedford, Texas where Grant would work in Continental’s Dallas office for the next fourteen years and then work another two for Zurich American Insurance before retiring for good in 1993. Many summers throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, the family spent a week with long-time friends from First United Methodist Church of Bedford at Horn Creek Family Camp near Westcliffe, Colorado. There Grant enjoyed trout fishing, horseback riding, and hiking, reaching the tops of four mountains, three of them “Fourteeners:” Horn Peak, Mount Antero, Mount Princeton, and Mount Yale. Grant also loved visiting friends in the Hill Country along the Llano River near Mason, Texas.

Retirement also provided Grant more time for his various other passions: playing and watching golf, including fifteen years as a volunteer marshal at the PGA Tour’s annual tournament at Fort Worth’s Colonial Country Club, woodworking, tending to a plot of land along Henrietta Creek in rural Roanoke, reading about Abraham Lincoln, distributing Gideon Bibles with the Gideons International Chapter in Granbury, Texas, and serving his community through Project Help at Bedford Methodist where he volunteered as an usher. He and Linda traveled with dear friends from Bedford Methodist to South Fork, Colorado, to Israel and Egypt, to Ireland, and a river cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest. Grant loved Regensburg, Germany, but Austria proved his favorite place— “the only way I’ll ever ride on a plane again.”

Grant and Linda began living near Granbury, Texas in 1998. When Jack and Luke visited, Grant took them on golf cart rides, laid out a baseball field for them in their backyard, and drove them to a nearby recreation center to play basketball. As much as he loved the tranquil beauty of the pecan tree-lined Brazos River banks and easy access to Grumps Burgers, Grant’s greatest passion was seeing more of his grandsons. The sixty-mile drives back and forth to visit Jack and Luke to be as involved in their lives as he and Linda wanted to be proved too taxing. They returned to Bedford in 2015 and began routinely taking the boys out for lunch, be it to Chick-Fil-A (Jack’s favorite) or Whataburger (Luke’s favorite). Grant participated with Linda in Grandparents Day at Jack and Luke’s school and attended all sorts of their sporting events: baseball, basketball, track, cross-country, football, and eventually the golf driving range with Jack. Grant often joked that while neither of his sons ever picked up a golf club, one of his grandsons certainly has. Jack first swung a golf club (a plastic one) with Grant while looking out at the Brazos River. There is also no doubt that Grant passed along his carpentry skills and creativity to Jonathan who now builds furniture.

A memorial service will be held at Lucas Funeral Home in Hurst, Texas on Saturday September 13 at 1:30pm. Grant will be remembered for his love and unwavering faith in the Lord, his calm presence, his courage and grit in returning to regular life and travel (and the golf course!) after a serious lower leg injury and ensuing back pain, his wise caution, his generosity, and his gratitude to others.

In lieu of flowers, please consider any of the following memorials in honor of Grant. Gideons International, www.gideons.org, The Moody Bible Institute, www.moody.edu, or The Happy Hill Farm, www.happyhillfarm.orgDonate