Henry Davis Glover, 56, a poplar resident of Harrisonburg, and co-manager of the Virginia Recreation Center, who had spent practically his entire life in Harrisonburg, died at 8:40 o'clock Tuesday morning at Rockingham Memorial Hospital following an extended illness.
Mr. Glover suffered a stomach hemorrhage in May 1952 and had not been well since then although he had continued his usual business activities. He became ill Saturday night and was admitted to the hospital Sunday morning where his condition had grown steadily worse, and little hope was held for his recovery.
A son of the late David F. Grover and Mary Alice Pulse Glover, he was born on Dec. 22, 1898, two miles north of Harrisonburg on the Kritzer Road. He moved to Harrisonburg as a child where he attended public school and spent the remainder of his life. He made his home at 80 Green Street.
"Henry", as he was popularly known to a host of friends and acquaintances, had been associated with the Virginia Recreation Center for the past thirty years and had been co-manage for a number of years. He possessed a kind and friendly personality and; was of a quiet and unassuming nature which won for him a host of friends. He was a member of the Harrisonburg Lodge of Elks and was a member of the Harrisonburg Baptist Church.
On April 31, 1944, he married Miss Alma Wetzel of Harrisonburg, who survives him. Besides his wife, who has been associated with Smith-Hayden Dry Cleaning Works for twenty-five years; he is survived by three cousins, Mrs. Hazel Kerns, of Harrisonburg Route 2; Mrs. Etta Quisenberry, of Lexington: and Mrs. Claude Baugher, of Los Angeles, Calif.
His mother preceded him in death on July 21, 1949 and his father died on- August 11th the same year.
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock from the chapel of the Lindsey Funeral Home in Harrisonburg with the Rev. Ernest S. Coffman In charge of the services. Burial will be in Woodbine Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be: C. Harry Barger, Virgil Davis, W. E. Thompson, Charles M. Brock, H. Burke Snyder, J. Louis Wood, Charles E. Kerns, and Gentry E. (Jack) Keister.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Harrisonburg Lodge of Elks, who will also conduct memorial services at the grave.
The body now rests at the Lindsey Funeral Home where active and honorary pallbearers are asked to meet Thursday afternoon at one-forty-five. The relatives will meet at Mr. Glover's late home on Green Street, Thursday afternoon at one-thirty where a brief service will be held prior a leaving for the funeral chapel.
Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Va
Wednesday Mar 16, 1955
Mr. Glover suffered a stomach hemorrhage in May 1952 and had not been well since then although he had continued his usual business activities. He became ill Saturday night and was admitted to the hospital Sunday morning where his condition had grown steadily worse, and little hope was held for his recovery.
A son of the late David F. Grover and Mary Alice Pulse Glover, he was born on Dec. 22, 1898, two miles north of Harrisonburg on the Kritzer Road. He moved to Harrisonburg as a child where he attended public school and spent the remainder of his life. He made his home at 80 Green Street.
"Henry", as he was popularly known to a host of friends and acquaintances, had been associated with the Virginia Recreation Center for the past thirty years and had been co-manage for a number of years. He possessed a kind and friendly personality and; was of a quiet and unassuming nature which won for him a host of friends. He was a member of the Harrisonburg Lodge of Elks and was a member of the Harrisonburg Baptist Church.
On April 31, 1944, he married Miss Alma Wetzel of Harrisonburg, who survives him. Besides his wife, who has been associated with Smith-Hayden Dry Cleaning Works for twenty-five years; he is survived by three cousins, Mrs. Hazel Kerns, of Harrisonburg Route 2; Mrs. Etta Quisenberry, of Lexington: and Mrs. Claude Baugher, of Los Angeles, Calif.
His mother preceded him in death on July 21, 1949 and his father died on- August 11th the same year.
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock from the chapel of the Lindsey Funeral Home in Harrisonburg with the Rev. Ernest S. Coffman In charge of the services. Burial will be in Woodbine Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be: C. Harry Barger, Virgil Davis, W. E. Thompson, Charles M. Brock, H. Burke Snyder, J. Louis Wood, Charles E. Kerns, and Gentry E. (Jack) Keister.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Harrisonburg Lodge of Elks, who will also conduct memorial services at the grave.
The body now rests at the Lindsey Funeral Home where active and honorary pallbearers are asked to meet Thursday afternoon at one-forty-five. The relatives will meet at Mr. Glover's late home on Green Street, Thursday afternoon at one-thirty where a brief service will be held prior a leaving for the funeral chapel.
Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Va
Wednesday Mar 16, 1955
Henry Davis Glover, 56, a poplar resident of Harrisonburg, and co-manager of the Virginia Recreation Center, who had spent practically his entire life in Harrisonburg, died at 8:40 o'clock Tuesday morning at Rockingham Memorial Hospital following an extended illness.
Mr. Glover suffered a stomach hemorrhage in May 1952 and had not been well since then although he had continued his usual business activities. He became ill Saturday night and was admitted to the hospital Sunday morning where his condition had grown steadily worse, and little hope was held for his recovery.
A son of the late David F. Grover and Mary Alice Pulse Glover, he was born on Dec. 22, 1898, two miles north of Harrisonburg on the Kritzer Road. He moved to Harrisonburg as a child where he attended public school and spent the remainder of his life. He made his home at 80 Green Street.
"Henry", as he was popularly known to a host of friends and acquaintances, had been associated with the Virginia Recreation Center for the past thirty years and had been co-manage for a number of years. He possessed a kind and friendly personality and; was of a quiet and unassuming nature which won for him a host of friends. He was a member of the Harrisonburg Lodge of Elks and was a member of the Harrisonburg Baptist Church.
On April 31, 1944, he married Miss Alma Wetzel of Harrisonburg, who survives him. Besides his wife, who has been associated with Smith-Hayden Dry Cleaning Works for twenty-five years; he is survived by three cousins, Mrs. Hazel Kerns, of Harrisonburg Route 2; Mrs. Etta Quisenberry, of Lexington: and Mrs. Claude Baugher, of Los Angeles, Calif.
His mother preceded him in death on July 21, 1949 and his father died on- August 11th the same year.
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock from the chapel of the Lindsey Funeral Home in Harrisonburg with the Rev. Ernest S. Coffman In charge of the services. Burial will be in Woodbine Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be: C. Harry Barger, Virgil Davis, W. E. Thompson, Charles M. Brock, H. Burke Snyder, J. Louis Wood, Charles E. Kerns, and Gentry E. (Jack) Keister.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Harrisonburg Lodge of Elks, who will also conduct memorial services at the grave.
The body now rests at the Lindsey Funeral Home where active and honorary pallbearers are asked to meet Thursday afternoon at one-forty-five. The relatives will meet at Mr. Glover's late home on Green Street, Thursday afternoon at one-thirty where a brief service will be held prior a leaving for the funeral chapel.
Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Va
Wednesday Mar 16, 1955
Mr. Glover suffered a stomach hemorrhage in May 1952 and had not been well since then although he had continued his usual business activities. He became ill Saturday night and was admitted to the hospital Sunday morning where his condition had grown steadily worse, and little hope was held for his recovery.
A son of the late David F. Grover and Mary Alice Pulse Glover, he was born on Dec. 22, 1898, two miles north of Harrisonburg on the Kritzer Road. He moved to Harrisonburg as a child where he attended public school and spent the remainder of his life. He made his home at 80 Green Street.
"Henry", as he was popularly known to a host of friends and acquaintances, had been associated with the Virginia Recreation Center for the past thirty years and had been co-manage for a number of years. He possessed a kind and friendly personality and; was of a quiet and unassuming nature which won for him a host of friends. He was a member of the Harrisonburg Lodge of Elks and was a member of the Harrisonburg Baptist Church.
On April 31, 1944, he married Miss Alma Wetzel of Harrisonburg, who survives him. Besides his wife, who has been associated with Smith-Hayden Dry Cleaning Works for twenty-five years; he is survived by three cousins, Mrs. Hazel Kerns, of Harrisonburg Route 2; Mrs. Etta Quisenberry, of Lexington: and Mrs. Claude Baugher, of Los Angeles, Calif.
His mother preceded him in death on July 21, 1949 and his father died on- August 11th the same year.
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock from the chapel of the Lindsey Funeral Home in Harrisonburg with the Rev. Ernest S. Coffman In charge of the services. Burial will be in Woodbine Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be: C. Harry Barger, Virgil Davis, W. E. Thompson, Charles M. Brock, H. Burke Snyder, J. Louis Wood, Charles E. Kerns, and Gentry E. (Jack) Keister.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Harrisonburg Lodge of Elks, who will also conduct memorial services at the grave.
The body now rests at the Lindsey Funeral Home where active and honorary pallbearers are asked to meet Thursday afternoon at one-forty-five. The relatives will meet at Mr. Glover's late home on Green Street, Thursday afternoon at one-thirty where a brief service will be held prior a leaving for the funeral chapel.
Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Va
Wednesday Mar 16, 1955
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