Armitta "Mim" Mae Granicy

Born 7/30/1940

Went home to the Lord

10/07/2026

Armitta was born to Herman Leslie Lewis And Virginia Harty Lewis in Neck City, MO.

She moved to “The Farm” in Grays Point, Mo

With her sisters

Dorothy Jean and Ramona Ann and her grandmother “Mollie” Lewis.

She attended Lockwood elementary and then moved to Lyndon, Kansas then during World War II they lived in Los Angeles

They moved back to “The Farm” where she contracted polio. Due to complications from Polio her family moved back to Los Angeles, where she could be treated. She lived in the hospital there for over a year. she had surgery where they fused her spine in 8 places she wore a body cast for a year and a half. She was told she would never be like a normal child to run and jump or have children like other girls her age she attended Virgil junior high in Los Angeles.

In 1954 they moved to Lancaster where she started high school at the Antelope Valley joint Union high school and despite what Dr said her senior year she became a song leader . She then met and married Robert Granicy, and again against all odds they had three beautiful daughters. she was very involved in her daughter‘s lives. She volunteered at Eastside elementary was a member of the PTA was involved in YMCA Indian Maidens and in the brownies and 4H.

They attended the Methodist Church in Lancaster where she volunteered in the office. They then went to Roosevelt community Church, where she and Robert were Sunday school teachers and chaperones for the junior and senior high school group. She became a deaconess as well. They then attended Valley Bible, where she returned back to school and attended AV Junior college. And received her counseling degree she became a counselor and worked with people from Valley Bible and Bethel. She became very active while volunteering at the Antelope Valley Hospital Medical Center in the Stroke club and S.A.R.S. She received an award from KNX radio for citizen of the month. She was co-owner and operator of Granicy Valleywide Feed and Pellets and GRANICY SQUARE. She was also the editor of a local paper they put out called Animal TalK. She was a judge for the table settings for many years at the Antelope Valley Fair.

She was always involved in the church and was a strong Christian woman. The church was her second family in recent years she attended Roosevelt. She was a remarkable woman who left smile an impact on everyone she met. She had many adopted through Christ, daughters sisters, brothers, sons, and grandkids in the most recent years she and her friend Carrie traveled throughout the United States traveling over 51,000 miles in 45 days. completing a major milestone and impressed many She was 83 at the time.

She will be greatly missed by many she left a legacy for many to follow. She is preceded in death by her husband, Robert Granicy and Daughter), Barbara, her parents, Herman and Virginia Lewis, as well as many other cousins relatives and friends.

She is survived by her daughter, Robin Granicy (Randy Sweem), grandchildren, Robert Granicy, and Abraham Sergent (Cassi) daughter, Allison Knowles (Dan Knowles)

Her grandchildren Christopher, Daniel, and Michal Hail (Jason) and and her great grandchildren Scout (Roo) and Andie And Juliett and Vincent, as well as many cousins and lifelong friends.

she is known as mom and Grammy Mim to countless children over the years. She left a smile on the face of all that have met her with the celebration of life her legacy will live on, and her inspiration will be one that leaves a smile for everyone’s face.