Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Glennan, Mary Elizabeth Keville October 16, 1947
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Virginian-Pilot  October 18, 1947
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Keville Glennan, widow of Michael Glennan, who was, for a 
third of a century following the Civil War, the dominating figure in the old 
Norfolk Virginian, married him shortly after he became owner of that struggling 
four-page newspaper and shared with him many of the trials and decisions of the 
paper’s growing up period. It was a partnership not on the business level, for 
Mrs. Glennan’s lifelong interest was centered in the home, but on the level of 
understanding companionship in which the founders of the home took frequent 
counsel with each other in the guidance of a newspaper which was destined for a 
major role in evolution of a poverty-stricken, post-bellum seaport into a thriving 
center of commerce.
In the period of failing health, but unfailing mind, that preceded her death 
Thursday at the age of 90, Mrs. Glennan coud look back on a lifetime that was 
almost evenly divided between the last century and the present one. Her childhood 
memories reached back to the flight of her mother and her brood of four children 
from the approaching investiture of Norfolk by the Union forces, to the brief 
security of Chesterfield County. A few years later found her studying at Norfolk’s 
St. Mary’s Academy for Young Ladies from which she graduated as valedictorian of 
her class. Then marriage to an enterprising and imaginative young newspaper 
publisher, children, church activities and manifold charities and - in the new 
century - many serene years in the closely-knit family circle and in the larger 
circle of her friends.
In fastness of the family group, there are many memories of Mrs. Glennan’s 
episodic participation as a younger woman in the organized benevolences of St. 
Mary’s Catholic Church, but no public record of these activities survive, for Mrs. 
Glennan preferred to leave to those who did not share her dislike of public notice 
the titles of charity, finding for herself a deeper satisfaction in its tithes. 
Shunning ostentation in every form, she turned to her home and family, to her 
books, her music and her garden for her deepest satisfaction. It was a life, 
especially in the present century, lived quietly and withdrawn but infused with an 
old-school grace and kindliness that her friends will long hold in memory.

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