Cedar Rapids James Albert Bert McGrew, 92, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, in the Woodlands at The Meth-Wick Community, of which he was apart since 2012. He died peacefully, surrounded by loving care, of complications of COVID-19. Bert was born Feb. 23, 1928, in Springville, Iowa, the son of Ernest and Irene (Hall) McGrew. He attended Olney Friends School in Barnesville, Ohio, graduated from Springville High School, and attended college classes at Iowa State in Ames and Cornell College in Mount Vernon, where he met Mary Louise Jacobi (Mary Lou). They married on Dec. 4, 1948, in Chicago. Bert graduated as a history major with B.A. from Coe College in 1953. During his career, he was a school bus driver, a math teacher, and he retired as a production manager from the Square D Co. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in Lincoln, Neb., and in Palatine, Ill.