Grover Lannys Compton, August 8, 1934 - December 24, 2021 Grover came from humble beginnings, born in Weiser, Idaho. Through his military and church service he experienced travel to many parts of the world, from Germany to Panama and across the United States. He was a family man with a devoted wife, Linda, and six children, Renee, Cris, Dean, Blair, Jeanette, and Angela, fifteen grandchildren and four great grandchildren. He was a religious man, enjoying many opportunities to teach Sunday School and completing 30 months of missionary work in South America. He was a lifelong learner with two baccalaureate degrees and one doctorate. He loved learning trivia, studying the US Presidents, and pursuing memorization techniques. On any given night, you could find him watching Jeopardy and keeping up with the top-scoring contestants. He loved learning languages, studying German, Polish, Russian, Czech, Yugoslavian and Spanish at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey. Even during the last years of his life, he continued this love by trying to master Portuguese. He was a lifelong music student and continued his study and practice of piano consistently for the last seven years of his life. A piano had always been present in his children's lives and they can recall him frequently sitting down to play the few songs he knew by memory. He led an active lifestyle and played tennis for many years and enjoyed hiking and jogging for many years. He sought to better himself and learn new things whenever he desired. For several years he was part of Toastmasters and he loved public speaking. Grover had a strong work ethic. He held a variety of jobs from harvesting asparagus and pin setting at the bowling alley in his youth to ambulance driver and polygraph examiner in the Army to over twenty years as an insurance investigator in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also learned intelligence photography in the military and used this in his personal life as there were decades where he was always found with a camera in hand. His family accompanied him on all his military assignments, except the one to Saigon, Vietnam. His dedication to work allowed him to provide a comfortable life for his family financially. With his polygraph skills, Grover would interview candidates for classified government positions. This grew into a deep interest in his fellow man, and he often made connections and discovered common ground through questions with nearly anyone he encountered. These words give you a measure of the man that Grover was but the legacy of his family gives you the measure of his heart. A final request from Grover as we lay him to rest - We are all children of a loving Heavenly Father. Let us be concerned with the welfare and point of view of others, strengthen those common bonds and eliminate the conflict which is much too common today in this topsy-turvy world. A ZOOM link has been provided for family and friends who are unable to attend the services. Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://zoom.us/j/97811449588
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