Memorial services for Miles Edmund Groves, 57, will be held April 18, 2010, in Washington, D.C.

 

He was born April 16, 1952, in Denton to Ed and Charlene Groves.

 

His family said most of his youth was spent in Plano, though he spent many weeks during his summer on the farm of his grandparents, Garland and Bedie Groves of Farmersville.

 

He graduated from Plano High School in 1971 and was an Eagle Scout.

 

After serving in the Army, he re-entered the University of North Texas, where he received a Bacherlor of Arts degree and a master’s in economics. He then went on to do post-graduate work at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

 

Although he remained a proud Texan throughout his life, according to his family, he found his true home in Washington, D.C. soon after he moved there in 1992. 

 

For more than 20 years, he worked as a media economist in the newspaper industry, first at The New York Times and then at the Newspaper Association of America. 

 

For the past 15 years, Mr. Groves was involved in the downtown community of Washington, D.C. Until his recent diagnosis, he threw his passion and energy into his local neighborhood, helping to create the Downtown Neighborhood Association of Washington, D.C.

 

Mr. Groves died of cancer at his home in Washington, D.C. March 7.

 

He is survived by his wife of 37 years, Carol Groves of Washington, D.C.; daughter, Melodie Rak and her husband, Joseph; granddaughters, Lilah and Annabelle of Cold Springs, N.Y.; mother, Charlene Groves of Farmersville; sisters, Anne Bramlett of Farmersville, Laura Coker of Winston-Salem, N.C., Sally Knight of Melissa and Margaret Kilbury of Garland and brothers, Col. Bryan Groves of Carlisle, Pa. and Fergus Groves of Farmersville.

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