David "Bjorn" Alan Grierson

David Bjorn Grierson was born in the City of Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, he attended Booker T. Washington High School, he graduated in 1978 ; he retired from the U.S. Navy at The Warfare Center, in Pax River ; he later served with DynCorp in Aerospace Operations at Jubayl, Saudi Arabia after the War in Kuwait and later in Lampertheim, Hesse, Germany.   He was travelling through Arusha, Tanzania, one of the many places he visited, and while parachuting near Mount Kilimanjiro his parachute failed to deploy, causing him to free fall over 2,000 feet to his untimely death.   

 

David was a Christian man at heart of the Pentecostal Religion, he believed in prayer and forgiveness.  His favorite quote ; the only one who gets hurt when you don't forgive, is you.

 

David is predeceased by his brother Reuel Gary Grierson (2021), Mark Anthony Fleshner (2021), his father, Reuel (2011), his mother Joyce (2012), his nephew Adam, and many others.  He leaves behind a brother, James (N.C.), many nieces and nephews, friends far and near.