Services will be held March 25 at First United Methodist Church in Grand Junction for Betty Jean Dodd Grundon, 98, long time Grand Junction resident.
Words of comfort will be offered by Pastor Angie Cunigan. Casket bearers will be Layne Carstens, Brett Grundon, Mike Cunningham, John Russell, Ebyn Carstens and Drake Grundon. Interment will be at the Junction Township Cemetery in Grand Junction.
On April 12, 1925, William Claude Dodd and Vivian Adele (Dake) Dodd welcomed their first child at their home in Boone, Betty Jean. She was joined over the years by six siblings. Phyllis, June, Clifton, Donald, Kenneth, and Douglas.
Betty graduated from Boone High School and then married Gerald Everett Grundon in 1951. Upon Gerald’s honorable discharge from the United States Army, he and Betty moved to Grand Junction, where they would spend the rest of their lives together with their three sons, John, Bruce and Gary.
Betty spent her time as a housewife and babysat for various children in the community. She loved to cook and tend her garden and she was always willing to pass along her vast knowledge to the people around her. She loved to spend time with her grandchildren and dedicated her time to them whenever she could. She taught them how to be self-sufficient by growing food at home, canning and cooking from scratch. She was able to pass on her experience of growing up frugally.
Betty Jean Dodd Grundon, 98, passed away on March 20, 2024, at Accura Healthcare in Ogden, from complications of influenza.
Betty is preceded in death by her parents; her husband Gerald; her son John; siblings Clifton (Nancy) Dodd, Phyliss (Lyle) Clopton, June (Dean) Miller, and Douglas (Ruth) Dodd; and sister-in-law Bonnie Dodd.
She is survived by her sons Bruce Grundon of Grand Junction and Gary Grundon of Jefferson; her siblings Donald (Karen) Dodd of Boone and Kenneth Dodd of Boone; grandchildren Brett (Shayla Stephenson) Grundon, Jeri (Mike) Cunningham, and Amy (Jeff) Grundon-Gochee; 14 great-grandchildren; five great-great grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
Services by Slininger-Schroeder Funeral Home, Jefferson
