Anna L. Grubic

Anna Lee Grubic passed away peacefully on January 28, 2014. She has gone to her final resting place with The Lord, Our Father. One of six children, Anna was born December 28, 1920 to Frances and Sterling Hamric in Rosedale, West Virginia. Anna was orphaned at the age of five when her parents died of typhoid fever. She moved to Glenville, West Virginia where she attended high school and later Glenville State Teachers College. Although she became separated from her brothers and sisters, she maintained a close relationship with her older sister Garnet. It was not until much later in her life that she was able to locate and reunite with some of her remaining family members.

During WWII, Anna was employed by a defense plant in Kent, Ohio as a welder. She then enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps and worked in the Statistical Control Office, first in Indianapolis In. and then in Greenville, S.C. Upon completion of her tour with the WAC’s, she resumed her position with the Statistical Control Office as civilian. It was at this time she met her future husband, George Grubic, and they were married in 1949. Anna’s husband was an officer in the US Air Force and as a result they traveled extensively throughout the US and Europe. Upon her husband’s retirement, the family settled in Windcrest, Texas, in 1970. Anna was employed for ten years by Joske’s and later by Dillard’s Department store, at the Windcrest Mall. Her beloved husband of 47 years passed away in 1997. In 2003 she moved to the Army Retirement Community in San Antonio, where she joined many of her longtime friends from Windcrest. During her 43 years in the Windcrest area Anna was a very active member of the Windcrest United Methodist Church. Anna is survived by her two children, daughter Elizabeth Grubic of Summit, New Jersey, and son Thomas Andrew Grubic and his wife Chiqui of Oceanside, California.

A memorial service will be held at 10:00am on Tuesday, February 4, 2013 at the The Army Retirement Community Chapel, 7400 Crestway, San Antonio, Texas 78239.Burial will follow at Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery at a later date.