Timothy Grice

Timothy Grice was a working member of the Central West End and greater St. Louis community whose life was centered on steady labor and the routine connections of a city worker. For many who cross an urban neighborhood daily, cab drivers are familiar faces who move through the same streets, know the rhythms of local life and provide an essential service; Timothy’s work placed him in that daily fabric.

Public records and contemporary news accounts identify Timothy as the driver whose life ended on September 14, 2016, in the Central West End. He was 38 years old at the time. Neighbors and community observers noted the shock felt in the building where he lived and along the blocks where he worked—reactions that point to a man who, in ways ordinary and practical, was part of his neighborhood’s everyday life.

Beyond the public facts about his death, the public record available through news coverage and local community references is limited. There is no family-published obituary located that matches the exact death date in available online obituary indexes. That scarcity of personal detail in public sources means we cannot responsibly add family relationships, hobbies, or other private details without a family-authored source.

What can be said with care is that Timothy’s life mattered to the people who crossed his path. His work put him on the city streets, where he offered rides, conversations and a measure of familiarity to riders and neighbors alike. The abruptness of lives interrupted is always a loss to a community — not only because of the life itself but because of the small, human exchanges that a person provides each day. This remembrance honors those ordinary, durable contributions: the labor, the presence on familiar corners, and the ties—however quietly stated—to building and place.

If family members or close friends wish to provide additional, family-authorized details — memories, preferred phrasing, photos, or funeral information — those would allow a fuller, more personal memorial to be prepared that reflects Timothy as family and friends remember him rather than the limited public record.