John A. Grimes Memorial Park

John A. Grimes, born July 10, 1924, was elected mayor of Morgan’s Point, Texas, on April 7, 1984, and served through June 1, 1992; he had just been elected to his fifth two-year term when he was killed in a tragic accident. He was remembered for caring about life, the citizens of Morgan’s Point, and the environment of the entire Bayshore area, and for his contributions to the city. A 1948 Yale University graduate in English literature, he worked as a journalist and later as a labor arbitrator. From 1956 to 1967, he was chief labor reporter of the Wall Street Journal, was on the roster for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service since 1983, and served as assistant to the director of that service from 1977 to 1981. During his career, he served as president of the Industrial Relations and Research Association and on the Advisory Board of the Center for Conflict Analysis and Management at the University of Houston–Clear Lake, and he was also on the Board of Directors for Boys and Girls Harbor, a children’s home in Morgan's Point. His environmental interests included being an amateur naturalist and ornithologist; he was a founder of the Galveston Bay Foundation, served on its Executive Committee at the time of his death, chaired the Galveston Bay Conservation and Preservation Association, served on the Board of Trustees of the Texas Committee on Natural Resources, devoted more than a decade to the Armand Bayou Nature Center, was founding chair of its Volunteer Organization, and had just been elected to his fourth term as president of the Nature Center’s Board of Trustees. He was also remembered as a family man whose lifetime of good works left a lasting legacy for life, nature, and people.

Morgan's Point, Texas · United States