URBANA — Stanley Everts Grey, 94, of Urbana died Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021, at house.
Stanley (Stan) was a retired emeritus professor in the College of Illinois French Section, where by he taught for 34 years.
Stan was born and used his early many years in Indianapolis. He was elevated by his mother, Pauline (Polly) Gray Linthicum, whom he has credited with instilling his first interest in all items French. He graduated from Shortridge Superior School in 1944.
Stan commenced studies at the University of Indiana below the Military Reserve Coaching Program before coming into military services assistance, which was expended in the Philippines and Japan. After discharge, Stan lived and labored on his family’s ranch in Stove Prairie, Colo., the place he enthusiastically took up the “cowboy life” of a cattle rancher. In the course of the summertime, Stan and his stepfather, Lemuel “Dutch” Linthicum, ran the livery steady at the Brinwood Lodge in Rocky Mountain National Park, when his mom managed the hotel’s eating place. Throughout these several years, Stan competed in several rodeos, specializing in calf roping and bareback bronc driving events.
The GI Invoice enabled Stan to enroll at the University of Colorado in 1948, the place he honed his fascination in the analyze of French, particularly French literature, and finished undergraduate get the job done. It was listed here he achieved and married his wife, Lorraine Basich, and daughter Claudia was born.
In 1952, the loved ones moved to Bloomington, Ind., in which Stan ongoing graduate scientific tests at the College of Indiana, major to a Ph.D. A Fulbright scholarship enabled more study in Toulouse and Paris, France, in 1957.
In 1958, Stan was made available a teaching posture at the University of Illinois and moved to Champaign-Urbana. It was in this article his next daughter, Abigail, was born. Stan remained at the UI until his retirement. In addition to teaching programs and seminars, principally in his area, 20th-century French literature, he directed Ph.D. dissertations and was a well-liked mentor of grad college students.
Stan and Lorraine savored shelling out part of every wintertime in Marco Island, Fla., as properly as visits to Europe, but most of their holiday vacation time was spent in Colorado. Right up until her dying in 2010, he and Lorraine cherished to hike, backpack, camp and in particular fish Stan was an avid fly fisherman who tied his own flies. In excess of the years, he hiked most of the trails and fished nearly each and every higher mountain lake and stream in Rocky Mountain Countrywide Park. Stan continued to commit summer time months in Colorado.
In later a long time, Stan discovered pleasure in new music (particularly jazz), textbooks, eating and very good dialogue with close friends, Friday night time poker game titles, and day by day mastery of the New York Instances crossword puzzle.
He is survived by his daughters, Claudia Grey Sweet and Abigail Grey two grandchildren, River Finlay and Reed Finlay and three terrific-grandchildren.
A memorial is prepared for the spring of 2022. Illiana Cremation Society is aiding the family members with arrangements. Condolences might be available at illianacremationsociety.com.
