He was the son of Henry Worth & Marietta "Mertz" Montgomery and a brother to my grandmother Winnifred A. "Montgomery" Foulke. He married Mary Elizabeth Crellin on 8 May 1928 at the home of her father, Robert K. Crellin in Burlington, Coffee County, Kansas.
Glen Harold went by his middle name "Harold". He was a very honest man, and would not tolerate liquor, being a temperance man. He had beautiful blue eyes and a large, "farm boy" frame and wrestled as a young man. He was a member of the Methodist Church and a Republican.
In Burlington, Kansas, R. K. Crellin and Harold Montgomery purchased one of the largest flour, feed and seed houses in eastern Kansas. Harold was Sheriff of Coffee County, Kansas from 1939 to 1942. He used to chase bootleggers during that time.
He moved his family to Pocatello, Idaho in March of 1945 and worked briefly for the railroad then got a job as a city policeman, working the night shift for years. He was a Third Degree Mason, and worked up the Scottish Rite.
In 1963, he suffered a major stroke and in 1966, they moved to a small 2 and 1/2 acre place in southeast Boise, Idaho.
Glen Harold died in Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho at the age of 79. At his grave side service, Masonic Rites were given by the Capital City Lodge, 93 A.F. & A.M. of Boise, Idaho.
He was the son of Henry Worth & Marietta "Mertz" Montgomery and a brother to my grandmother Winnifred A. "Montgomery" Foulke. He married Mary Elizabeth Crellin on 8 May 1928 at the home of her father, Robert K. Crellin in Burlington, Coffee County, Kansas.
Glen Harold went by his middle name "Harold". He was a very honest man, and would not tolerate liquor, being a temperance man. He had beautiful blue eyes and a large, "farm boy" frame and wrestled as a young man. He was a member of the Methodist Church and a Republican.
In Burlington, Kansas, R. K. Crellin and Harold Montgomery purchased one of the largest flour, feed and seed houses in eastern Kansas. Harold was Sheriff of Coffee County, Kansas from 1939 to 1942. He used to chase bootleggers during that time.
He moved his family to Pocatello, Idaho in March of 1945 and worked briefly for the railroad then got a job as a city policeman, working the night shift for years. He was a Third Degree Mason, and worked up the Scottish Rite.
In 1963, he suffered a major stroke and in 1966, they moved to a small 2 and 1/2 acre place in southeast Boise, Idaho.
Glen Harold died in Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho at the age of 79. At his grave side service, Masonic Rites were given by the Capital City Lodge, 93 A.F. & A.M. of Boise, Idaho.
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