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Adelaide Grimm (Thompson)

Adelaide, known as Tad, was born on September 27th, 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA.¹ Tad's father was Henry Arnold Grimm and her mother was Adelaide F Kidd (Grimm). Her paternal grandparents were Henry Ellsworth Grimm and Jeanette Hannah Stein (Grimm). She had two brothers named David and Philip. She was the youngest of the three known children.

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Peter Grimm Sr.^*
  - b. in Maryland, USA
  
  Peter Grimm Jr
  - b.1798 in Maryland, USA d.29 Mar 1864
  
  Christina Bash (Grimm)^*
  - b.~ 1781
  
  Henry Cossel Grimm
  - b.15 Feb 1827 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA d.15 Feb 1915 in Lebanon, Missouri
  
  Katherine Cossel (Grimm)
  - b.1798 in Pennsylvania, USA
  
  Henry Ellsworth Grimm
  - b.24 Jun 1863 in Pennsylvania, USA d.Mar 1947 in Lincoln Nebraska, USA
  
  Maria Kern (Grimm)
  - b.10 Apr 1824 in Springfield township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA d.16 Dec 1884
  
  Henry Arnold Grimm
  - b.24 May 1892 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA d.17 Mar 1966 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
  
  John Stein
  - b. in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany
  
  John J Stein
  
  Catherine Diehl (Stein)
  - b. in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany
  
  Jeanette Hannah Stein (Grimm)
  - b.1869 in Maryland, USA d.1948 in Nebraska, USA
  
  ? ? (Stein)
  
  Adelaide Grimm (Thompson)
  - b.27 Sep 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
  
  Adelaide F Kidd (Grimm)
  - b.24 Jan 1898 d.15 Sep 1989
  
  ^*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)

Personal Timeline

Tad's family

Tad and Jack were married in a religious & civil ceremony.¹ They had a son and four daughters, named Douglas, Dissy, Kim, Betsy and Diane. The family line is yet to be completed.

Children
- Special Agent Meredith Thompson
  Meredith, known as Dissy, was born about 1961.
  - Birth Notes
    
    Long Beach, Calif., native
  She died in an accident or as a result of an injury, plane crash, on August 27th, 1994 in Andean foothills of the Upper Huallaga Valley, Peru.²
  - Death Notes
    
    http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~rgrimmgenealogy/Hero.html
    
    On August 27, 1994, while on a drug eradication reconnaissance mission in Peru, she and four other agents were tragically killed when their plane crashed in a remote location in the Andean foothills of the Upper Huallaga Valley.
    
    Special Agent Meredith Thompson, one of five agents killed in a plane crash in August 1994 as they looked for cocaine labs in Peru
    
    Her team was taking part in Operation: Snow Cap, a mission to minimize the production of cocaine in Latin American countries.
  Kimberly Thompson
  
  Betsy Thompson
  
  Diane Thompson
  
  Douglas Thompson

¹ GRIMM-Kidd
² Meredith Thompson, in memory of