GLASSER, JOE FRANK, 61, of Louisville passed away Wednesday, August 31, 2011, at his home in the Highlands, surrounded by his loving family. Born in Bowling Green, Ky., on March 22, 1950, to Frank and Jane Glasser, Joe attended University High School and Western Kentucky University. At WKU, Joe played on the varsity tennis team, pledged Sigma Nu, worked in student government, and captained the business team. It was on the business team that he met his future wife, Patricia Newton of Campbellsville, Ky. The two were married in 1974, and after five years together in New Orleans, Joe and Pat moved to Louisville, to be closer to their families and to start one of their own. In 1978, Joe began work in the finance departments at BATUS / Brown & Williamson, where he stayed for 26 years before retiring in 2004 as the company's Assistant Treasurer. A member of Audubon Country Club and St. Agnes Parish, as well as a CPA and CFA, Joe will be remembered by those he left behind as a loving husband and father, loyal golf partner, and devoted fan of both the St. Louis and Louisville Cardinals. We admired Joe in so many ways: for the time he spent volunteering with SPAVA and AARP, among others; for his leadership in helping re-start the St. Agnes Carnival; for his patient coaching and counsel; for his enthusiastic research of family genealogy; for his insatiable appetite for the study of history end economics; for his passion for financial investment; for his curiosity and generosity, his kindheartedness and basic decency toward everyone he met. In life Joe had two heroes: Stan Musial and Teddy Roosevelt. He respected the latter for his work ethic and sense of purpose, the former for his humility and talent for hitting a baseball. Joe is survived by his wife Pat and three children, Meg, Chris, and Matt, as well as his brother, Dr. Jack Glasser of Bowling Green. Visitation will be held Friday from 2:00 to 8:00pm at Ratterman & Sons Funeral Home, 3800 Bardstown Road. The funeral mass will be at 10:00am this Saturday at St. Agnes Church, 1920 Newburg Road, with burial to follow at Cave Hill Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Western Kentucky University or to SPAVA.