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Glenn C. Wise

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Birth Date: June 6, 1909
Death Date: January 19, 1996
Age at Death: 86

Burial Details

Cemetery Name: Riverview
Cemetery Location: Minturn, Colorado

Obituaries

Eagle Valley Enterprise? - February 2, 1996

Glenn C. Wise
1909 - 1996

Glenn C. Wise, formerly a railroad worker and resident of Minturn, died Jan. 19 at Valley View Manor Nursing Home in Glenwood Springs. He was 86.

Mr. Wise was born June 6, 1909 in Waterville, Kans. to George and Anna (Bender) Wise. He married Bessie Metheney on Jan. 17, 1935 in Kansas; she died Oct. 10, 1954. He later married Mary Cranor on July 27, 1957 and the couple resided most recently in Craig.

He was employed as a laborer in Grand Junction and prior to that was a railroad worker in Minturn. He was a member of the Assembly of God Church and enjoyed fishing, hunting and playing checkers.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Wise of Craig; sons Glenn (Shirley) Wise, Jr. of Denver and Bobby LeRoy (Henrietta) Wise of Escondito, Calif.; daughters Yvonne Marie (Harry) Temple of Ft. Morgan, Colo. and Sarah (Lynn) Hollingsworth of Sunbeam, Colo.; brother James W. Wise of Kansas; sisters Nancy Clair, Ellen Klineschmidt, Florence Collier and Ruth Wingate, all of Kansas; 13 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, his former wife, Bessie, three brothers and two sisters.

Funeral services were held Jan. 24 at the Assembly of God Church in Minturn with the Rev. Orville Stewart officiating. Burial was at Riverview Cemetery in Minturn. Arrangement[s] were by Grant Mortuary, Craig.

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