Maxine Grimm

Even before returning to Tooele full-time, Grimm became involved in the effort to save the Benson Grist Mill. With committee chairman Jack Smith, they were able to have ownership of the property transferred to the County and have county funds applied to its restoration. She helped to write a script for the Benson Gristmill Pageant, which tells how the Tooele Valley was settled. Grimm died on February 10, 2017 at the age of 102.

Grimm chaired the County's Safe at Home committee in 2005. In 2007 she was named Citizen of the Year by the Tooele City Police Department.

After her husband died, Grimm and her children split their time between the Philippines and Tooele. She returned to Tooele full-time in 1988, and devoted her time to community affairs. She served as a member of the BYU Roundtable, chaired and helped found the Tooele County Museum, sat on the Salt Lake Opera board, and was asked to chair the Utah State Centennial Commission (1995–96). Every LDS Church president since David O. McKay has visited the Grimms, either in the Philippines or in Tooele.

During the war she had met US Army Colonel Edward Miller "Pete" Grimm, who had lived in the Philippines prior to the war. They were married in Erda, Utah in 1947, and they lived in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong as well as in the Philippines. She returned to Tooele each time to bear her two children, Linda and Edward Miller Grimm II ("Pete"), then returned to the Philippines to her husband. Her husband died on November 27, 1977 in the Makati Medical Center, while they were living in the Philippines.

Grimm and her husband contacted leaders of the LDS Church after the war, requesting them to send missionaries to the area. They helped set up branches of the church to aid members of the church who were stationed in the Philippines with the US military. Most of the first LDS baptisms in the area were performed in the Grimms' swimming pool. In recognition of her efforts, future church president Gordon B. Hinckley lauded her work in the Philippines when speaking to the BYU student body in March 1977, a few months before her husband died.

In 1939 she married Veldon Shields, a Tooele-born Utah attorney. However, he died from natural causes on June 7, 1940 in Salt Lake City. She then returned to New York City as secretary to the president of the Retail Association of New York. Her boss was Jewish, and as World War II began engulfing Europe, he worked at smuggling refugees out and finding places for them in New York. Grimm was soon also involved in this activity.

She attended public schools in Tooele, graduating as high school valedictorian in 1932. Her mother died that year, so Grimm delayed college plans to remain at home and care for her younger siblings. She later enrolled at the University of Utah, graduating in 1937 with a BA in retailing and business. She then obtained an MA from New York University, after which she returned to Utah as a buyer for ZCMI.

Maxine Shields Grimm (née Tate; May 18, 1914 – February 10, 2017) was a prominent American religious figure. She played a role in re-introducing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to the Philippines after World War II. She was instrumental in restoring the Benson Grist Mill as a historical site in Tooele County, Utah. She has served on several advisory boards and committees.