Biography: WILLIAM HAROLD GRANT, age 91, of Little Rock past away October 7, 2012. He was born March 13, 1921 to the late Charles Harold Grant and Annie Lockhart Grant of Little Rock, Arkansas. He was a graduate of Little Rock High School class of 1939, Little Rock Junior College class of 1941. He served as an NCO in WW11 in Europe with the 1st Batallion C Company of the 1308 Engineers in England, Amphibious Landing in Normandy, Battles of Northern France, The Bulge, Ardennes and Rhineland. He served in the Pacific theatre in Okinawa Japan & Korea. His unit was aboard amphibious landing craft hours away from an assault on the southeast coast of Kyuchu Inland Japan when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hisoshoma and Japan surrendered. His Military decorations included the EAME theatre ribbon with three bronze stars, the AP theatre Ribbon and World War 11 Victory Ribbon. Following Military service he received a BSME degree from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville class of 1947. He was a member of LAMBDO CHI ALPHA fraternity. In Fayetteville he met and later married his wife Katie Ellen Ferguson from Pottsville, AR. He was employed by Mathieson Chemical Co. followed by Blaw Knox Construction Co. at Pine Bluff Arsenal. He worked in the military design section of the Corp of Engineers Little Rock District. He later worked for Ebasco as a Power Plant Construction Mechanical Supervisor. For several years he worked for Ginocchio and Cromell Architects and Engineers. In 1962 he founded W. H. Grant & Associates Consulting Mechanical and Electrical Engineers as the principal registered professional engineer in Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Virginia. Mr. Grant was a founding member of the Arkansas chapters of ASME and ASHRAE. He was a life long Presbyterian, an Elder of First Presbyterian Church of Little Rock, Arkansas. He was preceded in death by his wife, Katie Ellen Grant. Survived by a daughter, Jan Perryman and husband, Randy; Sons William Charles Grant and wife, LeJeana , Richard Allen Grant; four Grandchildren, Jennifer Lynn Williams and husband, Scott, William Joseph Grant and wife, Francesca, Jeannine Grant Jones and Kathleen Grant Mehran and husband, Patrick and two great-grandchildren, Bailey Grant & Parker Grant Jones.Many thanks to Presbyterian Village staff for all the care and love they gave to our Dad. A funeral service will be held at Ruebel Funeral Home, on Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 10 a.m. followed by burial at Roselawn Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to First Presbyterian Church, Little Rock, Arkansas or to a favorite charity. Arrangements by Ruebel Funeral Home, www.ruebelfuneralhome.com.