SHERIDAN — Frances B. Grimshaw died in 1970 — before the birth of her grandchildren and while most of her children were still school-aged.

But her legacy remains strong in the Grimshaw family, according to youngest daughter Carol Olson — even among the generations who never knew her.

“None of the grandkids knew our mom, although they all knew our dad,” Olson said. “But they probably know our mom as well as we did, because we talk about our parents all the time. It’s important to pass those memories on to the next generation.”

And so Grimshaw's five children — daughters Olson, Barbara Martini and Cheryl Marsh and sons David and Stephan Grimshaw — talk. They remember family outings to Bruno’s, an old bar and dance hall in Kleenburn near Sheridan. They remember card games. And they remember their mom listening to the old blue phonograph that was always playing country music — usually Hank Williams.

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