Obit of Crane, Glen (c650) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 15 Jan 2001 Return to Roger Mills Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Crane, Savage, Kirby, Trent, Rivers, Morrow, Becker Glen Crane was born on December 10, 1907 south of Rankin, Oklahoma and passed away in Elk City, Oklahoma on July 14, 1990 at the age of 82 years, 7 months and 4 days. Glen moved with his parents, William Fleming and Lillian Edwina Crane, as a boy, to Hammon, Oklahoma. He graduated from Hammon Schools in 1926 and attended Business School in Chillicothe, Missouri in the fall of 1926. He worked at the Post Office in Hammon in 1927 before working at the Hammon Mercantile in 1928. In 1930 he attended college at Southwest Teacher's College at Weatherford and on May 16, 1931 he married Glena Belle Savage in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Glena Belle began teaching in Leedey while Glen returned to Southwestern to continue his education. In 1934, they obtained a two teacher school and both of them taught at Three Corner until 1936. Glen continued teaching until 1945 when his last school was Crawford. He had taught at Midway from 1938 throught 1939 before moving to Crawford. In 1942 he was appointed rural mail carrier out of Crawford while maintaining his teaching career. Tlen farmed after 1945 and could still be seen carrying the mail until his retirement on June 30, 1973. He was the Band Director for the Cheyenne Schools in 1950-51 and was a co- founder and co-owner of the Cheyenne Convelsecent Hospital where he had served as the administrator for a number of years. Glen was extremely musically inclined as he and Glena Belle could be heard making glorious music. Glen would be the last person to term himself as historian, although in fact that is what he is. True, he doesn't have the academis credits ascribed to some historians, but his remarkable memory full of events, people, places and consequences is better than a computer full of discs. He records things as he sees them in poerty, telling the stories of people he encounters in every day life in Roger Mills County. His published workds included, "101 Schools of Roger Mills County" (a983), "Nobility I Have Known In Roger Mills County" (1986). Two unpublished workds that Glen was currently working on were a compliation of eptiaphs titled, "Vocies From the Grave" and compilation of Roger Mills County Cemeteries, their locations and a list of who were buried in each cemetery. He was inducted into the Western Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1986 and had received his 50 year Pin from the Masonic Lodge where he was a member of the Cheyenne Lodge. He was preceded in death by his parents, 1 son, Joe Glen and 1 brother, Royce. He is survived by: his wife, Glena Belle; 1 daughter and son-in-law, Rogna and David Kirby of Cheyenne; 3 sisters, Cleta L. Trent of Midwest City, Okla., Voncil Rivers of Lubbock, TX, Evangel Morrow of Moore, Oklahoma; 1 granddaughter, Dawn and her husband, Will Becker of Laurel, Maryland; 2 great grandchildren, Lukas William Becker, Anna Christine Becker; and a host of other relatives and friends. Services will be Wednesday, July 18, 1990 at 2:00 p.m. in the Cheyenne Public School Auditorium with Mark Smith and Willard Cox offciating. Dee Ann Ray will read the Eulogy. The interment will be in the Cheyenne Cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service of Cheyenne. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html