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GRIMMER, HARRY KNIGHT (1899-1977)

GRIMMER, HARRY KNIGHT, Baptist minister, Newcastle, 1926-36; b. St Stephen, 23 Nov 1899, s/o Frederick Parker Grimmer and Grace Vernon Olive; m. 1926, Greta Dykeman, of Jemseg, N.B.; d. Halifax, 14 Aug 1977.

After attending Horton Academy in Wolfville, N.S., Harry K. Grimmer enlisted in the army in 1916 and went to France as a gunner with the Canadian Siege Battery. He was at the battle of Cambrai in 1917 and won the Military Medal. After the war he continued his education at Acadia University (BA 1923). He was ordained in 1924 and had a brief pastorate at Jemseg, leaving in September 1925 to spend a term at the Newton Theological Institute in Massachusetts. He was invited to Newcastle in January 1926 and soon came to be well-liked by the congregation. At the same time, he acquired a reputation in the community as an outdoorsman and sportsman.

In November 1935 Grimmer accepted a call to the Baptist church in Campbellton. He preached his last sermon in Newcastle in January 1936, ten years after the date of his arrival, which made his the lengthiest pastorate in the history of the church up to that time. When World War II broke out he enlisted in the chaplaincy service. He was stationed in England for a short time with the Carleton and York Regiment and was later at bases in Canada. He retired as a major. Afterwards, he had pulpits at Middleton and Amherst, N.S. In 1955 he was awarded an honorary DD by Acadia University. From that date until his retirement in 1966 he was the Protestant chaplain at Camp Hill Hospital in Halifax. He was survived in 1977 by his wife, Greta Dykeman, and a son.

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[b] official records [m] Acadia Record [d] Leader 31 Aug 1977 / Acadia archives; Advocate 8 Jan 1936; Leader 6 Dec 1994; Maritime Baptist 16 Sep 1925, 15 Dec 1954; Telegraph 9 Sep 1977


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