Crawfordsville Journal Review? Feb 3, 1966 -- Dr. Theodore G. Groner, 79 retired chairman of the Wabash College History Department and former basketball coach died yesterday in Culver Hospital. He was author of several books, including Sugar Creek Saga, a pioneer history of Crawfordsville and Montgomery County, Studies in Citizenship and Pioneer Sketcher. He was co-author of Wabash College: The First 100 Years. Dr. Groner was an authority on American history and history of modern Russia. He also had an early interest in athletics and at one tim eplayed semi-professional baseball. For several years. Dr. Gronert coached the Wabash College tennis team. He joined the Wabash faculty in 1924. He retired in 1956. He was born at Prairie du Chien, Wis. He entered the University of Wisconsin at the age of 16 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1908. He later received a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the same university. Dr. Gronert became basketball coach and head of the history department at centre College at Danville, Ky after he recieved his doctor's degree in 1919. His players included such famous persons as United States Senator John Sherman Cooper of Ky; the late Alvin (Bo) McMillion, ALl-American quarterback at Centre College and later head football coach at Indiana University; and Matty Bell, head football coach and athletic director at Southern Methodist University for many years. A veteran of WWI, Dr. Gronert was a former commander of Byron Cox American Legion Post (Crawfordsville). He was a member of the Kiwanis Club and Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church. He also had been chairman of the Pioneer Committee of the Indiana HIstorical Society. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Wabash College Chapel. Burial will bein Masonic Cemetery. Friends may call at Hunt & Son Funeral Home after 1 p.m. today. Survivors include a brother, Lawrence Gronert of West Allis, Wis. ========= According to the 1900 Crawford Co WI (101 W. side of Church Street) George Gronert born March 1858 and Anna are his parents. Also with them is Gpa' (Michael Gronert) b in Germany March 1829. Ted Gronert above born in July 1886