Grover Paul Kimmell was born on July 17, 1928, in Arkansas City, Kansas to Lennie and Gertie Alford Kimmell.

Graveside services will be held at Sunset Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home at 1:00 PM, on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, with Jon Hendricks officiating.

He served in the army during the Korean War. He met the love of his life, Charlene, in church in Pawnee, OK, in 1953. After a brief courtship, they married on August 20, 1954. Their daughter Connie was born on August 20, 1955. Three years later on June 19, 1958, their son Bruce was born.

At a very young age, Grover had his own roofing company in Stillwater, OK, for four years. He then moved the family to Durando, CO, then Breckenridge, CO, and settled in Leadville, CO, for twelve years. He worked as a carpenter in Vail, CO, and he worked on projects such as the Eisenhower Tunnel, which connected Colorado east to west beneath the Continental Divide. He moved to Odessa, TX, taking an oilfield pumping job pumping 25 wells for companies such as Reading and Bates, Durham Oil and J.M. Huber Corp.

In 2005, Grover started a trailer business and had 20 trailers throughout the oilfield employing his grandson Daniel Warriner and granddaughter Sheila Warriner. He sold the trailer business at the age of 87 and retired.

Grover was preceded in death by his parents, his brother Kenneth Melvin Kimmell, and his wonderful wife of 54 years, Cora Charlene Kimmell.

He is survived by his sister Barbara Smith of Rockwall, TX, his daughter Connie Warriner of Odessa, TX, her children Daniel Warriner and Sheila Warriner of Odessa, TX, his son Bruce Kimmell and wife Cindy Kimmell of Odessa, TX, their children Lori Feil and husband George of Roanoke, TX, Bruce Kimmell and wife Andrea of Manhattan, KS, Nathan Stevens and Natalie Stevens of Austin, TX; and 8 great grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Meals on Wheels.