Obit: Glenn T. Kellogg, 1980, Caddo Parish La Submitted by: G. T. Kellogg, Jr. Date: Dec. 1999 Source: Arkansas Gazette; Little Rock, Arkansas; July 20, 1980 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Shown below is the obituary of my father, Glenn T. Kellogg, husband of Martha Hoss Kellogg (obituary previously posted). Glen T. Kellogg, Retired State Worker Dies Glen T. Kellogg, aged 65, of 15 Sun Valley, Little Rock, who retired in 1978 as chief sanitary engineer with the state Health Department, died Saturday. He had joined the Health Department in 1947 and served as district engineer, director of the plumbing division, director of the water pollution control division, assistant director of the bureau of sanitary engineering and, from 1955 until his retirement in 1978, as director of the bureau of public health engineering and chief engineer. He was technical secretary for the Arkansas Water Pollution Control Commission from 1955 to 1960. Mr. Kellogg had helped in drafting of Health Department legislation during his career. Mr. Kellogg came to Arkansas from a two-year construction job at Alexandria, Virginia. Before that, he was a research and development engineer in the medical equipment laboratory at Carlisle Barracks, PA, from 1942 to 1945 while serving as a first lieutenant in the Army Sanitary Corps. He continued service in the Army Reserve and retired in 1975 as a lieutenant colonel. He began his health work in 1940 with the Mississippi Health Department and two years later worked as a water supply research engineer at Fort Belvoir, Va. His list of associations and memberships was extensive. Mr. Kellogg was particularly active in the American Water Works Association's Southwest Section, serving as director in 1975 and receiving honorary lifetime memberships (sic) in 1976. Also, he was vice president of the Arkansas Society of Professional Engineers in 1958, and was a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, the Water Pollution Control Federation, the Conference of State Sanitary Engineers and was a diplomat of the American Academy of Sanitary Engineers. In 1955 and again in 1975, he was chairman of the Gulf Southwest State Sanitary Engineers. He was made an honorary member of the Arkansas Water Managers Association in 1966, was named the Arkansas Plumbing Industry Outstanding Man in 1967 and received the Henry B. Davis International nonmember award of the American Society of Sanitary Engineers in 1968. Mr. Kellogg served on the Well Drillers Licensing Committee from 1972 to 1978 and was a former member of the Arkansas Mobil Home Commission and Arkansas Cemetery Licensing Commission. He had also been secretary-treasurer of the Arkansas Water Works Operators Licensing Board. He was a member and Sunday School teacher at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church and had been a Boy Scout troop leader and committeeman. Mr. Kellogg had addressed high school science students and civic clubs as a speaker for the Arkansas Professional Engineers. He was born at Geraldine, Mont., son of Roscoe J. and Pearl Yeamans Kellogg, and grew up in South Dakota and North Dakota. Mr. Kellogg held Chemistry Degrees from Jamestown College at Jamestown, ND, and the University of Iowa at Iowa City, (My Note - B. S. - Civil Engineering from University of Iowa), and a master's degree in sanitary engineering form the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Martha Hoss Kellogg, a son, Glen T. Kellogg, Jr., of Coffeyville, Kan., and a granddaughter. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Reuben Funeral Home by Rev. Carl Matthew. Entombment will be at Pine Crest Mausoleum. Memorials may be made to the American Red Cross Blood Bank or the American Cancer Society. Note: Glenn T. Kellogg is the husband of Martha Hoss Kellogg. Martha Hoss Kellogg is the daughter of Samuel Houston HossSr., Annie Viola Roberson.