Glenn N. Beil
Marriages
Patricia (Peterson) Beil - June 6, 1953
Obituaries
The Daily Sentinel page 6A - June 14, 2023
Retired U.S. Army
Colonel Glenn N. Beil, 91,
passed away May 30, 2023,
at the Hope West Care
Center in Grand Junction,
CO.
He was born April 4,
1932, in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
the son of Frank Dayton
and Beulah Amy (Norton)
Beil. He moved with his
family from Tulsa to
Hotchkiss, Colorado in
1944, where he graduated from Hotchkiss High School in
1950. Glenn was a talented athlete at Hotchkiss, lettering in
multiple sports and quarterbacking the football team to the
1949 state championship.
Following high school, Glenn attended Colorado A &
M College (now Colorado State University) and joined the
Colorado National Guard. Enrolling in ROTC at Colorado
A&M, Glenn graduated in 1954 and was commissioned a
2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. While in college, Glenn
married fellow student Patricia (Peterson) of Delta on June
6, 1953, and they later had four children.
Glenn’s Army career took him and his family to many
different locations across the country and in Germany. He
was an air defense officer with command and staff assignments throughout the U.S., Germany, and Korea, including
a combat tour in Vietnam in 1968-1969. He ended his career
on the General Staff at the Pentagon and then at NORAD,
working with the Safeguard missile program and retiring
as a Colonel.
Colonel Beil earned several awards and medals including the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Air Service Medal,
and Vietnam service medal. He was especially proud of his
work with the Korean military, both in Korea and later with
the Korean Tiger Division in Vietnam.
Following his retirement from the U.S. Army after almost 30 years of dedicated service, Glenn worked in real
estate in Colorado Springs for a short time before building a home in Delta, where he enjoyed a second career as
a Savings and Loan officer. While living in Delta, he and
Patricia joined the Hotchkiss United Methodist Church.
They were members there for many years, and Glenn
also volunteered his leadership skills as a director of the
church’s Wee Care program.
During this period of his life, Glenn enjoyed planting
and nurturing a wide variety of trees on his four acres, never tiring of experimenting with what might grow. Among
his other passions were fishing on Blue Mesa, playing
Michigan Rummy (whoop, whoop, whoop ... as he was
known to say if anyone made a false move), watching
Oklahoma Sooner football, and following Major League
baseball. He enjoyed attending several Colorado Rockies
games in Denver with family over the years, and he was an
avid fan of the St. Louis Cardinals, going back to his early
years in Tulsa where Cardinals games were a mainstay on
nightly radio broadcasts. One of his favorite memories was
a trip his sons, son-in-law and older brother made with him
to St. Louis for his 60th birthday to see the Cardinals play.
The series happened to occur during Old Timers week and
included not only current players, but also many of the former Cardinal greats he had grown up following.
Glenn and his wife, Patricia, moved to Grand Junction
in 2013 to be closer to some of their children. She survives,
and they would have been married 70 years on June 6th.
Glenn was a devoted husband, dad, and grandfather who
had a strong positive influence on each member of his immediate and extended family. In addition to his wife Patricia,
Glenn is survived by his four children: Kathy A Mowat of
Grand Junction, Brian N. Beil of Eagle, ID, David N. Beil
of Grand Junction, and Stanley J. Beil of Lynnwood WA.
He has six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his brother
James Beil, and his sister Nancy Martin.
His family would like to thank the many doctors and
nurses who provided compassionate care for Glenn in his
final months. Funeral services are under the direction of
Callahan Mortuary. Interment will be held with military
honors at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western
Colorado at 1:00 pm on Thursday, June 15th.