EDITH GRIGSBY TRUST FOR THE ELDERLY
P.O. BOX 65
SHEPHERDSVILLE, KY 40165
(502) 543-2218
Enclosed please find the 1999 edition of the Bullitt County, Kentucky, Senior Citizens
Information Guide, published by the Edith Grigsby Trust for the Elderly. This guide has
been compiled with the intention of providing information on all resources available for
the benefit of the senior citizens of Bullitt County in one comprehensive, easy-to-use
booklet.
While government and some few other organizations are listed in the table of contents
under their respective names, the table is primarily a topical list of
information provided in the guide.
The Edith Grigsy Trust for the Elderly provides this booklet for your information and
use. We also ask that you make copies of the guide and help distribute it to all senior
citizens with whom you have contact. This will assure that the guide is available to those
who can make use of it.
Our hope is that no senior citizen who contacts any service provider will go away with
their questions unanswered. It is the Trust intention for the guide to help you steer
seniors or others to the proper person or organization if you are not the one who can help
with that particular problem.
Thank you for your cooperation in the compilation and distribution of this booklet. No
senior should miss an opportunity because they could not find the proper service provider.
Yours truly,
Thomas B. Givhan, Trustee
Edith Grigsby Trust for the Elderly
Please note that the origianl guide has been updated by Bullitt County Public Library.
BULLITT COUNTY, KENTUCKY
SENIOR CITIZENS
INFORMATION GUIDE
INFORMATION ON TOPICS BENEFITTING
SENIOR CITIZENS OF
BULLITT COUNTY, KENTUCKY
JANUARY 1, 1999
PUBLISHED BY:
THE EDITH GRIGSBY TRUST FOR THE ELDERLY
THOMAS B. GIVHAN, TRUSTEE
PROFESSIONAL BUILDING
SHEPHERDSVILLE, KY 40165
EDITH GRIGSBY TRUST FOR THE ELDERLY
Edith Leoda Clark Grigsby was born July 3, 1897, in Bullitt County. She was a lifelong resident of Bullitt County, except for a time spent in Louisville while her husband, Leon A. Grigsby, worked at the Logan Company.
Her early years were spent in the Ridge Road-Cedar Grove section of Bullitt County where her main interests were her life on the farm with her husband, church activities at Victory Baptist Church, and her extended family. Clark Lane is named for her family.
Mr. and Mrs. Grigsby, who had no children, later resided on the Grigsby farm at the eastern edge of Mt. Washington where Twelve Oaks Subdivision is now located. She was active in helping Mr. Grigsby in his farming and investments. After his retirement, most of the farm was sold and the Grigsbys built a new home on Highway 44. Mr. Grigsby deceased in 1974 and Mrs. Grigsby continued to live in their home, manage her investments and be interested in her county and the Methodist Church.
Mrs. Grigsby admired people who had an interest in serving their fellow man and desired to do what she could in such service. By her will she created a Trust for the benefit of the elderly of Bullitt County. She was particularly interested in doing something to help senior citizens have a suitable and comfortable place to live. She had strong opinions that people who tried to help themselves and still needed help should get it. She found the world not always kind to the elderly and wished to aid senior citizens in doing more than just existing in their latter years.
In her desire to help others who may not have had the pleasant life that was hers, the Trust was created. The primary function of The Edith Grigsby Trust for the Elderly is to provide suitable housing for elderly persons unable to provide or find such a place for themselves.
This publication is dedicated to serve senior citizens of Bullitt
County and is made possible through the foresight and generosity of Edith Grigsby. We
thank her.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Legal Aid Society of Louisville was granted and made significant contributions to this publication under the direction of Margaret Jones Hostetter.
Regena Stevens compiled this directory and made significant contributions to its content, format, publication and distribution.
We wish to thank Helen Underwood and the Bullitt County Retired Teachers Association
and all others who assisted in the distribution of this directory.
Thomas B. Givhan, Trustee
Edith Grigsby Trust for the Elderly
Since 4/17/2000
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