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     Martha Grove was born at St. Thomas, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania.¹ She was born on 11 August 1816.² She married William Hillery Harn, son of Denton Harn and Rachel Ruth Pickett, on 12 June 1834 at Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania; Ellen Dorcas Harn Manuscript. Martha Grove died on 29 June 1878 at Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania.^3,1,2 She was buried at Old Graveyard, Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania.²

     Martin Luther Grove was born on 20 January 1830.^1,2,3 Martin Luther Grove was a Tobacco Farmer. He married Margaritte Jane Harn, daughter of John (II) Harn and Charlotte Hay, on 8 December 1856 at Libertytown, Frederick Co., Maryland.² Martin Luther Grove died on 20 October 1867 at age 37.^1,2,3 Ellen Dorcas Harn Manuscript. The cause of death was Typhoid Fever. He was buried at Prospect Cemetery, Mount Airy, Frederick Co., Maryland.³

     Mary Iotte Grove was the daughter of Martin Luther Grove and Margaritte Jane Harn. The cause of death was died in infancy. in 1863.²

     Nancy Grove was born on 18 September 1844.¹ She married Alfred Milton Harn, son of Richard William Harn and Lucretia Whittaker, on 19 March 1864 at Beaver Co., Pennsylvania. Nancy Grove died on 30 December 1898 at Beaver Co., Pennsylvania, at age 54.¹ She was buried at Clark Park Cemetery, Beaver, Beaver Co., Pennsylvania.¹

     Sarah Jane Grove was born on 16 June 1832.¹ She married Andrew Jackson White, son of Robert White and Elizabeth Jarrett, on 7 February 1850.¹ Sarah Jane Grove died on 20 June 1885 at age 53.¹ She was buried at The Oval B247, Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania.¹

     Williamina Grove was born on 8 November 1859 at Carroll Co., Maryland.^1,2 Williamina Grove was a Teacher. She was the daughter of Martin Luther Grove and Margaritte Jane Harn. Williamina Grove married David Tobin in 1880.² Williamina Grove married John Caldwell circa 1900 at Nome, Nome Co., Alaska.^2,3 After marriage to David Tobin, went to New York to live. Journey to Nome, Alaska in 1900, engaging in gold mining. Williamina Grove died in 1936 at Alameda Co., California.

     Alan Bruce Grover married Virginia Grace Gehrman, daughter of Dr. Fredrick Wilbert Gehrman DVM and Mary Featherstone Perkins, on 3 June 1972 at Hennepin Co., Minnesota.

     Lieren Grow married Chandler Pearson, son of Dennis Tay Pearson and Kaylene Larae Raby, on 9 May 2009 at St. George LDS Temple, St. George, Washington Co., Utah.

     Caroline Maude Grubbs is the daughter of Max Wilton Grubbs and Miriam Ellsworth Black. Caroline Maude Grubbs married James Lever. Caroline Maude Grubbs married Charles Phillip Singleton in 1982.

     Max Wilton Grubbs was born on 10 March 1910 at Riverside Co., California.¹ He graduated circa 1932 at Furman University, Greenville, Greenville Co., South Carolina, Bachelor of Science.² He married Miriam Ellsworth Black, daughter of Curtis Wesley Black and Maude Comfort Blanchard, on 31 March 1934. Max Wilton Grubbs graduated at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, Master of Science degree.² Between 1968 and 1977 Max Wilton Grubbs was a chemistry teacher and
director of athletics, tennis coach, at Anderson College, Anderson, Anderson Co., South Carolina.² He died on 12 May 1977 at McDowell Co., North Carolina, at age 67. The cause of death was truck-van crash.²

Hushed AC campus in shock
By JOANNE THRIFT
Staff Writer

The Anderson college campus was in a state of virtual shock this morning.

Mrs. Ola Ford switchboard operator was answering numerous calls of condolence about the deaths of four young AC students and their tennis coach, Max Grubbs, in a tragic truck-van collision yesterday in a small town in North Carolina.

Her voice quivered as she attempted to hold back tears.

All she could say, over and over, in a husky voice, was "Thank you for calling."
Two staff members talked in low voices in the hall.
"Seems unreal, doesn't it?" one said. The other only nodded.

"The campus is just stunned. Dr. Cordell Maddox, AC president said.

On Sunday, two of the crash victims Eric Teasley of Greenwood and Donny Pankiw would have donned their caps and gowns and joined the graduation procession at Boulevard Baptist Church.

Their families had planned to be in Anderson this weekend for the graduation. Their sons were graduating with honors. Instead, today funeral services are being planned for the two young men, two more members of the tennis team and their coach.

The degrees earned by Teasley and Pankiw will be hand delivered to the families by college staff members.

Their classmates will honor the memory of those who died in yesterday's accident Sunday during a special memorial service that will be part of the commencement program.

The campus today was almost deserted, with only the weekend graduation events remaining to close out the 1976-77 school term. The freshmen students have gone home. The sophomores who will graduate Sunday are still on campus, but classes have been completed.

Max Grubbs hat been looking forward to commencement, Maddox said. Members of the family have indicated they prefer for commencement activities to continue as planned because that is the way Grubbs would have wanted it.

"Max meant so much to the college all through the years" he said. "This is a terrible ordeal for his family and for the parents of the boys."
One of the first people to arrive on campus this morning was AC President Emeritus Dr. J.E. Rouse, who said "I just wanted to be here."

His association with Grubbs goes back to 1930, when both were students at Furman University, he said.
"He was playing football then. He was small, but be played." Dr. Rouse said

Later, when Grubbs was in business in Belton, Dr. Rouse was his pastor from 1940 to 1946 at the Belton First Baptist Church.

"Then he came to Anderson College in 1968, the year after I did," Dr. Rouse said.
The words came slowly, as he remembered the past.
"This just makes me sick, physically," he said rubbing his hand across his forehead.

When Grubbs came to AC, Dr. Rouse said it was as a chemistry teacher and
director of athletics, although at that time there was almost no athletic program.

"Max Grubbs," he said, "was a Christian gentleman, and he had a culture born in the boy."

Dr. Rouse recalled when he and Grubbs took a bus trip together to Bridgeport, Conn., when Grubbs girls basketball team was playing for a national title.

"You know, Max found his life here (at AC) and lost his life here." Dr. Rouse said. "He had been in business but he found more happiness at the college than he ever knew."

The personal effects and the clothing of the fatally injured students were being gathered this morning school employees. These will be delivered to the families or left for pick-up, at each family's preference.

As soon as college officials learned of the accident yesterday, staff members left to be with the individual families and with the two hospitalized survivors.

Today the legend of Max Grubbs was being re-lived.

"They would tell how he would get out with a hoe and rake clean the courts off," Maddox said. "And I've seen him myself, out there with a broom sweeping off the courts."

They were saying, "He did the little things and the big things. But most of all, he loved those boys."
A Belton resident recalled that when Grubbs was in the clothing business there during the 1940s, "he never said a bad thing about anyone."

He added, "You know you could go in his store, and if you started talking about sports, the customers just had to wait. But they didn't mind. They just joined in the conversation, too."
One of the "boys," Jim Owens of Charleston, who played in 1967-69 on the tennis team, called today. He couldn't believe what had happened and was remembering how "wonderful Coach Grubbs and Mrs. Grubbs had been to him during his AC years.

"I want to come to the funeral service," Jim Owens said.
This I all that is left now for "his boys" to do for their coach, Owens said.

'It was like a nightmare,' survivor of AC crash says
By JOANNE THRIFT
Staff Writer

"It was like a nightmare We could see the truck coming toward us and there wasn't anything we could do."
Those were the words of Scott Dickey 20, of Greenville, one of the two survivors of a grinding truck- van crash which snuffed out the lives of the Anderson College tennis coach and four of the tennis team players yesterday.
The accident occurred on an upward winding curve at Linville Caverns, N.C. on U.S. 221 as the team in an AC van was enroute to Lees-MacRae College in Banner Elk, N.C. for a regional tennis tournament.
The van was crushed almost flat when it was hit head-on by the truck when then ran over the van and went down into a ravine, Anderson College president Cordell Maddox said. The back hoe on a low boy being pulled by the truck, then apparently snapped around and hit the back of the smashed van, according to reports by highway officials.

Dickey and the second survivor, Dihreu Rathode, 19, of Bombay, India, were seated in the middle of the van when the accident happened and were pinned inside until they were rescued.
Fatally injured in the collision were Max W. Grubbs, 66, AC tennis coach, of 422 Tanglewood Dr., Anderson, who apparently was driving the college van; Fazal Mahood Kahn, 21, a sophomore from Pakistan and captain of the AC team; George Eric Teasley, 19, a sophomore, of Greenwood; David William Owens, 19, a freshman of Easley; and Daniel J. Pankiw, 20, a sophomore of Waynesville, N.C.

Teasley and Pankiw would have graduated with honors Sunday from Anderson College Maddex said today their degrees will be hand-delivered to the families of the students.

Funeral service for the victims are: Mr. Pankiw Sunday 1 p.m. at St John's Catholic Church, Waynesville, N.C; Mr. Owens, Saturday 2 p.m. St. Andrews United Methodist Church, Easley; Mr. Grubbs to be announced later; Mr. Teasley, Saturday 3 p.m. Connie Maxwell Baptist Church, Greenwood; Mr. Kahn, to be announced later.
A memorial service is planned Sunday as part of the commencement program at Boulevard Baptist Church at 3 p.m. for Grubbs and the students.

Dickey is listed in fair condition and Rathode in serious condition this morning at Mission Memorial Hospital in Asheville N.C. They were transferred to Misson Memorial from Marion (N.C.) General Hospital late last night.

Maddox said Dickey has a fractured leg and abrasions and is conscious today. Rathode, who underwent surgery last night, has injuries to the diaphragm and chest.

"The nurse told me she thinks he is going to make it," Maddox said.

Reports of the accident by the N.C. Highway Patrol indicated the driver of the dump truck apparently lost control due to the loss of his brakes or some other mechanical failure.
Troopers Tom L. Adams and Joe Waldrop investigated and said the truck crossed the center line and struck the van head-on, demolishing the van.

Adams said the truck driver, identified as Leo Watkins, 38, and a passenger, Dan Williams, 35, both of Selma, Ala were not injured.

Grubbs had been with the college for 20 years, first as a professor of chemistry and as head of the athletics department. He had retired last year as an instructor but remained on for one more year as tennis coach, at the urging of Maddox. He was to retire as tennis coach at the end of this tennis season. He was the college's first women's basketball coach and had eight winning seasons.
He led his tennis team to numerous Western Carolinas Junior College Conference records as well as Region X wins and ranked well in national competition though the years.
Last year, Grubbs accompanied his team to Scottsdale, Ariz. where it won ninth place nationally.

A native of Banning, Calif., he had been in business 21 years prior to entering the teaching and coaching field. He had received B.S. degree from Furman University and an M.S. degree from Clemson University. He was a member of the S.C Academy of Science and the First Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday School. He is survived by his widow, the former Miram Black; two daughters, Vicki Grubbs Cox, (Mrs. Walter Cox Jr.) of Anderson and Caroline Grubbs Lever (Mrs. James Lever) of Marion and several grandchildren Funeral arrangements will be announced by The McDougald Funeral Home of Anderson.

Kahn was awarded All- American honors in tennis on the Pakistani Davis Cup team when he was a freshman. He had been planning to go on the pro tour after his two years at Anderson College. His body will be shipped to his native country.

Teasley was the son of Mr. and Mrs. George K Teasley of Greenwood. He had played two years of varsity tennis and was a 1975 graduate of Greenwood High School.

Owens, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Owens of Easley, was the only freshman on the tennis squad. He graduated from Easley High School in 1976. Funeral plans for Owens will be announced by Robinson Funeral Home in Easley.
Pankiw, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pankiw of Waynesville, N.C., was an honor student attending AC on an athletic scholarship.

Anderson Independent-Mail
Anderson, South Carolina - Friday, May 13, 1977, page 1 and page 7.²





Max Grubbs

ANDERSON - Max Wilton Grubbs, 67, of 422 Tanglewood Drive, coach of the tennis team at Anderson College, husband of Miriam Black Grubbs, died Thursday.
A native of Banning, Calif., son of the late Millard Wright Grubbs and Idelle Rice Grubbs Haynie, he was the first Athletic Director at Anderson College, during the years of service he coached both men's and women's basketball, track and tennis teams. He also was a professor of chemistry. His men's tennis teams were predominately among the top ranked junior college teams in the nation. He was to retire at the end of this school year as tennis coach. He was also an official umpire with the U.S. Tennis Association. He was a member and teacher of the Tom Allen Sunday School Class of First Baptist Church.
Surviving also are daughters, Mrs. Walter Cox Jr. of Anderson and Mrs. James Lever of Marion; and five grandchildren.
Services will be at 4 p.m. Saturday at McDougalds North Chapel, with burial in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Mausoleum.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Anderson College Tennis Program.

The Greenville News
Greenville, South Carolina - Saturday, May 14, 1977, page 32.³


He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery, Anderson, Anderson Co., South Carolina.¹

     Miriam Victoria Grubbs is the daughter of Max Wilton Grubbs and Miriam Ellsworth Black. Miriam Victoria Grubbs married Walter Thompson Cox III on 8 February 1963 at Greenville Co., South Carolina.

     Jeff Guarisco married Helen Rissler, daughter of George Wesley Rissler and Inez Smith.

     Charles Gerald Gucker was born on 7 October 1919 at Marceline, Linn Co., Missouri.¹ He married Rita Katherine Suomela in 1944. Charles Gerald Gucker died on 28 June 1962 at Seattle, King Co., Washington, at age 42.¹ He was buried at Holyrood Cemetery, Shoreline, King Co., Washington.¹

     Sandra K. Gucker is the daughter of Charles Gerald Gucker and Rita Katherine Suomela. Sandra K. Gucker married Earl Gene Weaver, son of Fred Weaver and Barbara Jean Detwiler, on 16 July 1973 at King Co., Washington.^1,2

     Harry Colon Gue was born on 30 July 1877.¹ He married Sallie Amelia Poole, daughter of George Benton Poole and Rosie Grant Lowman. Harry Colon Gue died on 20 November 1952 at age 75.¹ He was buried at Damascus United Methodist Church Cemetery, Damascus, Montgomery Co., Maryland.¹

     Harry Ralph Gue was born on 12 December 1921.¹ He was the son of Harry Colon Gue and Sallie Amelia Poole. Harry Ralph Gue married Betty A. Brightwell. Harry Ralph Gue died on 8 April 1980 at age 58.¹ He was buried at Damascus United Methodist Church Cemetery, Damascus, Montgomery Co., Maryland.¹

     Laura L. Gue is the daughter of Ronald Wayne Gue and June Elaine Norwood.

     Ronald Wayne Gue was born on 10 March 1943 at Frederick, Frederick Co., Maryland.¹ He was the son of Harry Ralph Gue and Betty A. Brightwell. Ronald Wayne Gue married June Elaine Norwood. Ronald Wayne Gue died on 27 May 2017 at Damascus, Montgomery Co., Maryland, at age 74.¹ He was buried at Damascus United Methodist Church Cemetery, Damascus, Montgomery Co., Maryland.¹

     Ronald Wayne Gue is the son of Ronald Wayne Gue and June Elaine Norwood.

     SOURCE: Helen Kendall. Harold Albert Guetzkow was born on 11 May 1907 at Danewood, Chisago Co., Minnesota. He was the son of Henry Frederick Guetzkow and Minnie M. Schultz. Harold Albert Guetzkow married Alice Agnes Nestaval, daughter of John Joseph Nestaval and Antonia M. Vitha, circa 1937. Harold Albert Guetzkow died on 2 December 1949 at Ramsey Co., Minnesota, at age 42. He was buried at Elmhurst Cemetery, St. Paul, Ramsey Co., Minnesota.¹

     Henry Frederick Guetzkow was born on 23 October 1858 at Pomoran, Germany.¹

Immigrated from Germany to USA in 1869. He married Minnie M. Schultz in January 1885. Henry Frederick Guetzkow died on 20 May 1946 at Nessell Twsp., Chisago Co., Minnesota, at age 87.¹ He was buried at Saint Johns Cemetery, Rush City, Chisago Co., Minnesota.¹

     Patricia Ann Guetzkow is the daughter of Harold Albert Guetzkow and Alice Agnes Nestaval. Patricia Ann Guetzkow married Gregory John Johnson, son of Gunnard S. Johnson and Catherine E. Mitchell, on 29 August 1964 at Ramsey Co., Minnesota.

     Herbert Guggenbickler was born on 28 October 1917 at Grays Harbor Co., Washington. He married Frances May Garstad, daughter of Rasmus Benhardus Garstad and Alfrieta Perkins, on 7 June 1938 at Pacific Co., Washington. Herbert Guggenbickler and Frances May Garstad were divorced before 1950 at Washington. Herbert Guggenbickler died on 25 August 1980 at Grays Harbor Co., Washington, at age 62.

     SOURCE: Gary C. Harn letter 24 July 1995. Cecil E. Guild was born on 4 October 1908 at Bridgeville, Sussex Co., Delaware.¹ He married Evelyn Larue Stem, daughter of William Landing Stem and Elsie Olivia Harn, circa 1929. Cecil E. Guild graduated at Polytechnic School of Pharmacy. Cecil E. Guild was a pharmacist, at Bixler and Guild Drugstore, Maryland. He married Sara Elizabeth (?) Cecil E. Guild died on 4 November 1988 at Longview Nursing Home, Manchester, Carroll Co., Maryland, at age 80.¹ He was buried at Taylorsville United Methodist Church Cemetery, Taylorsville, Carroll Co., Maryland.¹

     Joyce Guild is the daughter of Cecil E. Guild and Evelyn Larue Stem. Joyce Guild married male Houck.

     Lois Anita Guild was born on 28 August 1930 at Hagerstown, Washington Co., Maryland.¹ She was the daughter of Cecil E. Guild and Evelyn Larue Stem. Lois Anita Guild married Curtis Gay Reaves. Lois Anita Guild died on 30 July 1984 at Carroll County General Hospital, Westminster, Carroll Co., Maryland, at age 53.¹ She was buried at Taylorsville United Methodist Church Cemetery, Taylorsville, Carroll Co., Maryland.¹

     Catherine Guion was born circa 1773.¹ She was the daughter of Louis Guion and Elizabeth Rappelye. Catherine Guion died before 1880.¹ 1842 lived Flushing, L.I., NY.

     Louis Guion married Elizabeth Rappelye on 3 January 1771.

     Rachel E. Gunn was born on 16 September 1864.¹ She married James W. Fleming, son of William Fleming and Rachel Rebecca Harn, on 7 February 1882 at Carroll Co., Maryland. Rachel E. Gunn died on 22 September 1934 at age 70.¹ She was buried at Taylorsville United Methodist Church Cemetery, Taylorsville, Carroll Co., Maryland.¹

     Edith Annie Gustafson was born in 1881 at Sweden. She married Frank Sussman on 12 December 1909 at King Co., Washington. Edith Annie Gustafson and Frank Sussman were divorced before 1920 at Washington. Edith Annie Gustafson married George H. North circa 1920. Edith Annie Gustafson died on 26 January 1959 at Tacoma, Pierce Co., Washington.