Cleo LaRuth (Dickey) Greiner was born on January 17, 1922 in Comyn, Texas to Thomas Ward Dickey and Florence Ann Rackley. She was one of twelve children who grew up in this small central Texas town in Comanche County.
Cleo served as a member of the (WAC) Women's Army Corps during WWII with the (SHAEF) Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in England and France. She was educated at Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas and received a degree in journalism at the University of Minnesota after the war. She taught school for many years and worked for the Texas Department of Human Services as a welfare judge.
Cleo loved books and tried to read them all. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother and will be missed tremendously.
On Wednesday, May 18, 2016, Cleo Greiner was called to her Heavenly home. She was greeted there by her parents; her husband of 44 years, John "Jack" Greiner; brothers: Willis, William, Loyd, Cecil, & R.C. Dickey; sisters: Jenny Owen, Gladys Watson, Estelle Hanson, Beatrice Carr and Sybil Hardin.
Her life and legacy will continue to be honored and remembered by her sister, Mayme Decker of Comanche; children: John Greiner and his wife Anice, Miriam Schenz and her husband James, and Michele Greiner and her husband Murray Urbach; grandchildren: Jacqueline Greiner, Jeremy Mosley, Josh Mosley; great-grandchildren Jae Levy, Alexa Mosley & Jada Mosley; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and close friends.
