Paul S. Glenn

Paul S. Glenn grew up on a farm in Sabetha, Kansas. He was a brother to Dwight, Leon, Donna and Wanda Glenn.

At an early age, Paul loved to help his mother in the kitchen with cooking. He was teased by hs brothers who thought he was avoiding field work. But the truth was that he loved to cook. Throughout his life his interest in cooking followed him. He was a perfectionist and his family remembers his biscuits, apple pie, chili, smoked sausage and the best ever Thanksgiving Turkeys. One year during a winter blizzard, he made honey taffy and his daughters remember a taffy-pull in the kitchen.

At the age of 18 he became a Christian while attending the Woodlawn Baptist Church. His relationship with the Lord played an important part throughout the many struggles and difficulties in his life.

Paul was a pitcher on a baseball team in Sabetha and as a "lefty" had a mean, roundhouse, left curve which made him an important part of the team. He also had a corrked left little finger that was from a break during a game. It was a mark on his graceful hands that had a story to tell.

In his early 20's he rode the rails along with a cousin to North Dakota to work on harvesting crews. Paul told of sitting very close to the engine room and furnace in order to stay warm while dodging cinders and all of this because he forgot to take a jacket! He spoke of jumping rolling off the box cars at the city limits to avoid the "train Dicks" hired by the railroad to keep hobos off the rails.

Paul moved to Colorado in 1937 and worked in the construction trades and as a painter. He was very proud that he painted the steel for the first hangers on the Lowery Air Force Base.




Paul met Margaret Smiley in 1938 on a blind date and they married a year later. Paul and Margaret attended Englewood Baptist Tabernacle where he met Gene Stratton who was watchmaker. Gene Stratton trained Paul in that intricate and demanding discipline which he took to with ease.

Paul was later employed by Kortz Lee Jewelry as their watchmaker. During that time Margaret Kathleen was born in 1944 and Naomi Lee was born in 1948. He opened his own Jewelry store in Golden, Colorado and later had store locations in Lakewood and Arvada where he branched out into jewelry manufacturing, which was a great creative outlet for him. He created many beautiful pieces of jewelry which are being worn and enjoyed today. He retired from the Arvada location in 1999 and continued to design jewelry in his shop at home.

Paul had an inquisitive mind and loved exploring new endeavors which lead him to become a Bee Keeper, Day Lily Hybridizer, and organic gardener. As a bee keeper, he made many friends and was called upon to capture swarms of bees that had broken from their original hives that had landed in parking lots and residences. Paul was very calm and had a great hand with the bees, very deliberate and gentle. He loved bees and said that "bees are great people". He loved the outdoors and was an avid fisherman and back packed into lakes in the Rocky Mountains.

Paul was a great story teller and had great comedic timing. He loved an audience and entertained guests with tales from his life on the farm. One particular favorite was the story of his cousins who robbed a bank! As he aged, his story telling remained with him. One day as he was working in his garden, he fell and could not get up. Some neighbor children who were riding their bikes saw him and ran to the door to alert Margaret. As they helped him up he said, "Well...I was just resting out there. I could have gotten up." Even to the end, his sense of humor was so alive. On one occasion, while he was leaving his doctor's office, struggling to walk to the waiting room full of people who were watching him, he turned to them and said "I want you to know that this is just an act. I'm really not this old." A younger man from the back of the waiting room retorted... "Yeah, I would have taken you for about 45". The whole room exploded in laughter.

His passion for life, his love of people, his intellectual curiosity and sense of humor will be sorely missed by friends and family.

Survived by wife, Margaret; daughters: Kathy (Bob) Shields, Naomi (Milt) Zentmyer; granddaughter Laura (Scott) Rawlins; sister, Wanda Glenn.

Memorial Service, Sat., March 14, 2009 at 10am, Newcomer Funeral Home - West Metro Chapel, 901 S. Sheridan Blvd,, Lakewood, CO 80226.