David Grimes, a self-employed free-lance writer for Hancock-Henderson Quill newspapers and The Hawk Eye in Burlington, Iowa for 5 1/2 years.
He was born in 1954 at Burlington Hospital, raised in Henderson County near Olena.
He graduated from the first graduating class of Southern High in 1972, then attended Oral Roberts University (ORU) in Tulsa, OK, later graduating in 1980 from Evangel College, Springfield, MO - majoring in communication with emphasis in Print Journalism.
He is divorced, with two children- Joycilyn, 16 and Christopher, 11 who live in Tulsa.
David resides in Monmouth and enjoys plays, movies, writing, meeting people, listening to good stories , and working as a movie extra.
Last year he really enjoyed the stories he was able to cover for the Hawkeye such as- Susie Bogguss when she came home to Aledo last summer after her debut with her new album "Swing"; Ragbrai in part at West Point, Iowa, Tri-State Rodeo-Ft. Madison, Iowa, Old Thresher's- Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He has covered a myriad of interesting trials, the most complex story was his first federal court trial this year, and his most fun was the skunk problems in Nauvoo which monopolized a lot of the discussion at city hall in Nauvoo.
His most profound story was a feature on Archie McIntosh of Kirkwood who lost both his hands in a farming mishap.