Following is the obituary for MILA ADAMS GRIEB, submitted for the family by the Harding Funeral Home.

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Mila Adams Grieb, of Westport, passed away Sunday, April 17, 2022. 

Mila was born in El Dorado Ariz., but considered herself to be from Shreveport, La., where she spent most of her youth. She has been a resident of both Weston and Westport for more than 65 years. 

Mila is perhaps most well known for her 45 years in the Westport-Weston real estate industry. She worked at Helen Benson Associates for 15 years before founding her own agency — Mila Grieb Village Realty — in 1984. It was a very successful boutique agency due in part to her creative promotions and advertising, helping to found a small group of independent agencies, and her innovative ways to promote her company and its associates. She sold her business to Coldwell Banker after 15-plus years. Coldwell Banker said, “It was quite the announcement, and we were proud to have her on our team.”    

Her friends and associates in the real estate industry wrote fondly “Mila was a class act.” “She was an amazing woman who achieved great success in a challenging business while still maintaining her grace, charm, kindness, humor and integrity”.  

Mila graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston,Ill. She was a former Conover model and a stage actress. 

Mila and her husband, Warren, were co- presidents of the Weston PTO and the founders of the very first annual Weston Memorial Day Fair, which still continues to this day. 

During the 1970s, she and Warren also owned and operated the Arnold Palmer Driving Range and Miniature Golf Course in Westport. Mila was a member of the First Church of Christ Scientist, Westport.

To her friends and family, Mila was a good friend, a fabulous mom and a wonderful and supportive wife. She made a tremendous difference in the lives of those who knew her. She will be remembered for her outgoing personality, her creativity, kindness, humor, wit and deep love of family. 

Mila is survived by her loving family: her devoted three daughters, Nancy Joy Wilsnack and her husband Evan of Boynton Beach, Fla., Janet Adams-O’Keefe of Westport and Wendy Grieb Moore and her husband Robert of Coronado, Calif., as well as her adored grandchildren, twin brothers Justin Hopfer of Los Angeles, Calif., and Jarrod Hopfer of Bozeman, Mont., Christopher Wilsnack of Bentonville, Ariz., Alisha Holden of Boynton Beach, Fla., Weston Moore of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Sarah Moore of Coronado, Calif., and her seven great-grandchildren. 

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the First Church of Christ Scientist Westport, 55 Compo Road South, Westport, CT 06880, or the Humane Society of Connecticut, 455 Post Road East, Westport, CT 06880.

Mila will be remembered and celebrated privately by her family. The Harding Funeral Home of Westport is in care of the arrangements.