Background
Grace was born on a farm near Burlington Junction, Missouri.
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William Grace
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Education
He received a Bachelor of Surgery and later and Master of Business Administration from the University of Arizona in 1959.
Career
He taught at Arizona State University. In 1966 West.M. Grace Construction and West.M. Grace Development Company initially headquartered in Saint Joseph, Missouri but later headquartered in Arizona. The company built shopping centers and houses throughout Arizona and Missouri as well as some of the first public buildings at Missouri State University as well as the Bachelor of Divinity Owens Library at Northwest Missouri State University.
In the 1990s after gambling in various levels became legal in the Midwest he owned, built and managed:
Saint Jo Frontier Casino, Street Joseph, Missouri
Lakeside Casino and Resort, Osceola, Iowa
Mark Twain Casino, Louisiana Grange, Missouri
The Woodlands dog racing track, Kansas City, Kansas
His firm managed Native American gambling enterprises at:
Casino White Cloud, White Cloud, Kansas
Bucky"s Casino, Prescott, Arizona
Following his death the four Missouri and one Iowa casinos were sold to Herbst Gaming for $287 million.
The Woodlands has subsequently closed. Money from these and other business activities are now used by the West.M. Grace Foundation.
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2004 (aged 69)