Text of obituary:
Glenn O. Balch, 86, of Boise, died Saturday, Sept. 16, 1989, in a Boise hospital of injuries suffered in an automobile accident on Aug. 29.
Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. today at the Relyea Funeral Chapel.
Mr. Balch, an author, soldier, and "man of letters," was born Dec. 11, 1902, at Venus, Texas, a son of Edith and Olin Balch. He attended te University of Texas at Austin, graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and completed postgraduate work at Columbia University in New York.
He came to Idaho in 1924 to fight forest fires for the US Forest Service, and was stationed at the Garden Valley ranger station.
He joined The Idaho Statesman in 1926, and spent the next five years as a traveling correspondent in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon. Later, he worked in The Statesman's Boise office.
He was an avid polo player, and traveled for a number of years with the Boise team throughout the Northwest.
Mr. Balch was assistant to Idaho's US Sen. John Thomas in Washington, D.C., prior to World War II.
In 1942, he entered active duty in the US Army-Air Force where he served in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater. He was awarded an air medal for more than 100 hours of combat flight over enemy territory. In 1963, he retired as an Army colonel.
His first publications with national distribution appeared as short stories in American Boy and Boy's Life magazines. In 1935, he published his first book, Riders of the Rio Grande, which was written while he was snowbound at Petit Lake in Idaho's Sawtooth mountains. His 35th and last book was Buck Wild, published in 1976....
The Idaho Statesman, 19 Sept, 1989, p. 2C.
Glenn O. Balch, 86, of Boise, died Saturday, Sept. 16, 1989, in a Boise hospital of injuries suffered in an automobile accident on Aug. 29.
Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. today at the Relyea Funeral Chapel.
Mr. Balch, an author, soldier, and "man of letters," was born Dec. 11, 1902, at Venus, Texas, a son of Edith and Olin Balch. He attended te University of Texas at Austin, graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and completed postgraduate work at Columbia University in New York.
He came to Idaho in 1924 to fight forest fires for the US Forest Service, and was stationed at the Garden Valley ranger station.
He joined The Idaho Statesman in 1926, and spent the next five years as a traveling correspondent in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon. Later, he worked in The Statesman's Boise office.
He was an avid polo player, and traveled for a number of years with the Boise team throughout the Northwest.
Mr. Balch was assistant to Idaho's US Sen. John Thomas in Washington, D.C., prior to World War II.
In 1942, he entered active duty in the US Army-Air Force where he served in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater. He was awarded an air medal for more than 100 hours of combat flight over enemy territory. In 1963, he retired as an Army colonel.
His first publications with national distribution appeared as short stories in American Boy and Boy's Life magazines. In 1935, he published his first book, Riders of the Rio Grande, which was written while he was snowbound at Petit Lake in Idaho's Sawtooth mountains. His 35th and last book was Buck Wild, published in 1976....
The Idaho Statesman, 19 Sept, 1989, p. 2C.
Text of obituary:
Glenn O. Balch, 86, of Boise, died Saturday, Sept. 16, 1989, in a Boise hospital of injuries suffered in an automobile accident on Aug. 29.
Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. today at the Relyea Funeral Chapel.
Mr. Balch, an author, soldier, and "man of letters," was born Dec. 11, 1902, at Venus, Texas, a son of Edith and Olin Balch. He attended te University of Texas at Austin, graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and completed postgraduate work at Columbia University in New York.
He came to Idaho in 1924 to fight forest fires for the US Forest Service, and was stationed at the Garden Valley ranger station.
He joined The Idaho Statesman in 1926, and spent the next five years as a traveling correspondent in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon. Later, he worked in The Statesman's Boise office.
He was an avid polo player, and traveled for a number of years with the Boise team throughout the Northwest.
Mr. Balch was assistant to Idaho's US Sen. John Thomas in Washington, D.C., prior to World War II.
In 1942, he entered active duty in the US Army-Air Force where he served in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater. He was awarded an air medal for more than 100 hours of combat flight over enemy territory. In 1963, he retired as an Army colonel.
His first publications with national distribution appeared as short stories in American Boy and Boy's Life magazines. In 1935, he published his first book, Riders of the Rio Grande, which was written while he was snowbound at Petit Lake in Idaho's Sawtooth mountains. His 35th and last book was Buck Wild, published in 1976....
The Idaho Statesman, 19 Sept, 1989, p. 2C.
Glenn O. Balch, 86, of Boise, died Saturday, Sept. 16, 1989, in a Boise hospital of injuries suffered in an automobile accident on Aug. 29.
Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. today at the Relyea Funeral Chapel.
Mr. Balch, an author, soldier, and "man of letters," was born Dec. 11, 1902, at Venus, Texas, a son of Edith and Olin Balch. He attended te University of Texas at Austin, graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and completed postgraduate work at Columbia University in New York.
He came to Idaho in 1924 to fight forest fires for the US Forest Service, and was stationed at the Garden Valley ranger station.
He joined The Idaho Statesman in 1926, and spent the next five years as a traveling correspondent in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon. Later, he worked in The Statesman's Boise office.
He was an avid polo player, and traveled for a number of years with the Boise team throughout the Northwest.
Mr. Balch was assistant to Idaho's US Sen. John Thomas in Washington, D.C., prior to World War II.
In 1942, he entered active duty in the US Army-Air Force where he served in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater. He was awarded an air medal for more than 100 hours of combat flight over enemy territory. In 1963, he retired as an Army colonel.
His first publications with national distribution appeared as short stories in American Boy and Boy's Life magazines. In 1935, he published his first book, Riders of the Rio Grande, which was written while he was snowbound at Petit Lake in Idaho's Sawtooth mountains. His 35th and last book was Buck Wild, published in 1976....
The Idaho Statesman, 19 Sept, 1989, p. 2C.
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