Enlistment April 20, 1917
Discharge March 20, 1919
Departure February 10, 1919 at Marseille, France on the U.S.S. America (ID 3006)
Residence Manning - father: Julius Grage
Unit Battery "A" 67th Artillery Coast Artillery Corps
Rank Corporal
Service Number 819003
Wife Lucille M. (Harris) Grage April 11, 1918 - July 30, 2001
Buried with Louis at Black Hills National Cemetery, Sturgis, South Dakota

Burial with military honors by the VFW will be in the Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis under Direction of Behrens Mortuary.

A memorial has been established to the church.

Grage died Wednesday, January 14, 1981, at a local hospital.

Son of Julius J. and Henriette (Frahm) Grage, he was born September 26, 1896, at Grand Mound, Iowa. He moved to Manning, Iowa, with his family where he attended school.

He served in the U.S. Army during World War I.

He married Lucille Harris in 1939 at Gering, Nebraska. The couple lived in Sidney, Nebraska, until 1965 when they moved to Rapid City. He was an employee of the U.S. Postal System for 30 years. Grage was a member of the American Legion, the VFW, the World War I Veterans of Rapid City, the Knollwood Heights United Methodist Church, the 100F and the Patriarch Militant.

He is survived by his wife, Lucille of Rapid City; one daughter, Mrs. Wayne (Carol) Williams of Sidney, Nebraska, two granddaughters, one brother, Rudy of Long Beach, California; one sister, Josephine McFarland of Long Beach, and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by seven brothers and sisters.

He is buried with his wife, at the Black Hills National Cemetery, Sturgis, South Dakota.