In the 1921 Canada census, Robert was age 11 months living at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada with his father Alexander Grier (29), mother Barbara Grier (22), uncle Samuel Grier (43)[1].
Roy was born on the family farm west of Ogema where he lived and worked for 89 years except for approximately four years when he served Canada in the Royal Canadian Air Force during WW2[2].
In 1944 his aircraft was shot down over Romania where he was imprisoned until Romania was liberated. See “The Roy Grier Story”.
In 1945 he returned to Ogema to farm and enroll in the College of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan. His university education was cut short by bad weather which kept him on the farm until late in the fall preventing him from returning for his fourth year. Instead he went to Sudbury ON to find work for the rest of the winter. There he met his future wife, Ruth Ganton, whose father was the doctor in Ogema at that time[2].
Roy married Ruth Ganton on 11 Nov 1950. They had five children.
Roy's wife Ruth died in 2012.
Roy died in 2017 at Regina, Saskatchewan and was buried at Ogema Cemetery[3].
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Roy by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Roy: