David Grove Obituary, Elk Grove CA, David Grove has died
David Grove Obituary, Death – David Cliff Grove, Ph.D., of Gainesville passed away on May 24, 2023, following a long struggle with Parkinson’s Disease. He was born on October 17, 1935, in Youngstown, Ohio, the first child of Harriet Elizabeth “Betty” Cliff Grove and Donald Everett Grove. His parents moved to Los Angeles soon afterwards, and their son grew up in Westwood with his two younger sisters, Susan Grove Phalen and Gretchen Grove.
In 1957 he married Margaret Celia Marshall, who preceded him in death, the mother of his three children: David Andrew Grove, Donald Scott Grove, and Becky Grove Fasth. In 1985 he married Susan Dale Gillespie. Dr. Grove earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles, and in 1968 began a distinguished academic career specializing in the archaeology of ancient Mexico.
He held positions in Anthropology departments at the State University of New York at Binghamton (1968-1970) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1970-2001). Upon his retirement as Professor Emeritus and relocation to Gainesville in 2001, he was granted a Courtesy Professorship in Anthropology at the University of Florida.
Dr. Grove directed several archaeological digs in various parts of central Mexico, but is best known for his work at the Olmec-affiliated site of Chalcatzingo. He authored or edited eight books and monographs, and published dozens of journal articles and professional book chapters. Among his awards and honors, he was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, winner of the Alfred Vincent Kidder Award for Eminence in Archaeology of the American Anthropological Association, and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He is survived by his wife, three children, a son-in-law and daughter-in-law, three grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, two sisters and their husbands, seven brothers- and sisters-in-law, 13 nieces and nephews, 14 grand-nieces and nephews, and three great-grand nieces and nephew. The family suggests any memorials be made to the Ronald McDonald House Charities of North Central Florida or Tyler’s Hope for a Dystonia Cure.
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