THE WALL OF FACES

I too had his bracelet and for many years wondered what had become of him. A true American hero.

I would be happy to donate my own gently worn bracelet bearing Lt. Col. Grubb's name to a direct descendant. Please provide proof if interested.

EVELYN FOWLER GRUBB

LEADER OF A GROUP SUPPORTING

PRISONERS OF WAR

DIES AT AGE 74


THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

4 January 2006

MELBOURNE, Florida, 3 January 2005 (AP) -

Evelyn Fowler Grubb, who worked to gain recognition for prisoners of war after her husband, a United States Air Force pilot, was shot down and captured in North Vietnam in 1966, died on 28 December at her home here. She was 74.

The cause was breast cancer, her family said.

Ms. Grubb initially received little information from federal officials after her husband, Captain Wilmer Newlin Grubb, disappeared.

She then approached other wives facing similar situations, forming groups that eventually became the National League of P.O.W. / M.I.A. Families.

Ms. Grubb was the league's national coordinator in Washington in 1971 and 1972.

"She went from being a stay-at-home mom who was growing increasingly frustrated over the lack of publicity about P.O.W.s to becoming a dynamo who headed a national organization and had regular meetings with presidents and heads of state," said her oldest son, Jeffrey.

A photograph of Ms. Grubb's husband was released by his captors as an example of "humane" treatment of American prisoners of war.

After eight years of hoping to be reunited with her husband, Ms. Grubb learned that he had died shortly after his capture. The North Vietnamese said he died from injuries suffered while being shot down, but Ms. Grubb believed he was probably tortured to death.

Ms. Grubb and her organization also urged that the bodies of prisoners who died in captivity be returned to their families.

Her husband's remains were finally returned to the United States in 1974 and interred in Arlington National Cemetery.

A native of Pittsburgh, Ms. Grubb moved to Melbourne in 1977.

She recently completed work on a book with the writer Carol Jose about her experiences with the organization for P.O.W. families.

Ms. Grubb is survived by four sons and several grandchildren.

Wilmer Newlin Grubb was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the time he was carried as being Missing In Action / Prisoner Of War.

"An God said who shall we send.I answered I am here,send me."

Isaiah 6:8

Facta Non Verba
Laus Deo

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die.

Mary Frye – 1932