Stanley Moerner Grote was born May 2, 1927, at the F.A. Grote Family Ranch Home some four miles south of Mason. Father and Mother were Fritz A. Grote and Lillie Moerner Grote. Being born into the Grote Family included a strict and very Religious and Traditional German Family Heritage. Stanley spoke only German until he began school in Art- that school district being one of the traditional “one room schoolhouses” that were scattered all- across Mason County.