Apr. 14—When Gramps Coffee and Donuts opens on the northeast corner of Fourth and Frederica streets this summer, customers will find such Gramps-centric items on the menu as Back in My Day, Kids These Days and Get Off My Lawn.
“We want to bring joy to our customers,” Amy Gilmore said of the names.
She and her husband, Greg, executive pastor of Owensboro Christian Church, own the business.
But he’ll continue his work as basically the chief operating officer at the church and she’ll be running the business and making the donuts.
So who’s Gramps?
“My dad,” Greg Gilmore said.
Dennis Gilmore is the inspiration behind the business.
Greg and Amy Gilmore grew up in Owensboro, but they left in 1998 when he joined the staff of Crossroads Christian Church in Lexington.
Dennis Gilmore moved to Lexington not long after that.
“He liked to go to a coffee shop there, sit with people, tell them corny jokes and visit with them,” Greg Gilmore said. “Then, he got cancer. He’s OK now, but he went through a…
