Obituary of Glen A. Bartley
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Funeral services for Mr. Glen N. Bartley will be conducted on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 7pm at George Funeral Home & Cremation Center, 211 Park Ave. SW with Minister Brian McCutcheon officiating. Interment will take place on Friday at Toledo OH Memorial Park where he will be laid to rest next to his wife. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5pm until the time of the service.
Mr. Bartley was born on March 7, 1915 in Columbus, OH and entered into his Lord's rest at age 93 on February 1, 2009 at Eden Gardens Care Center in Aiken, SC.
He was preceded in death by one brother, Kenneth 1945, his wife of 51 years, Elsie A. in 1990, a sister Donna Jean and is survived by one sister, Mate Webb of Columbus, Ohio and one daughter, Karel S. Richard Marshall of Aiken, SC, a granddaughter Melanie Billy Blake of Burford, GA, a grandson, Kevin Marshall of Boone, NC. and two great grandchildren.
At two weeks of age, he moved to Louise, KY. His father, Walker Bartley, died when he was two years old and he was raised by his mother, Goldie, and grandmother, Mary Hughes, on their Louise, KY farm.
As a young man he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps CCC and at age 19, he traveled by train to Monticello, UT to construct roads through a new national park. He was later transferred to the Grand Teton National Park in ID. During this time he was paid $5 a month and his mother received $20 per month. He was proud that he learned how to drive a truck and service their bull dozers during his two year service. One of his fondest memories was returning on his 80th birthday to Southern Utah to see the roads that he helped construct.
He met the woman of his dreams at the Circleville, OH Pumpkin Festival and they were married on August 8, 1940. He entered WWII in 1943 and served as a cook in the Naval Construction Battalion Seabees. His group constructed the entire airbase and support facilities on Tinian Island in one year to permit the B-29's including the Enola Gay to bomb Japan. Upon discharge at the completion of the war, he was employed for the next 37 years as a meat cutter/cook for the VA hospital in Chillicothe, OH. During his military service, his wife served as a "Rosie the riveter" for Curtis Martin in Columbus, OH.
He was added to the Lord's church through baptism in 1941 at the Golden Gate Church of Christ, Chillicothe, OH. He served faithfully as a Deacon at the Circleville Ohio Church of Christ and later as a Trustee of the Toledo Ohio Church of Christ. He felt that helping others through benevolence work was his calling. He will be remembered by his family sitting in his chair while reading his bible.
He relocated with his daughter, Karel, to Aiken, SC in March 2003, where he worshipped at the Aiken Church of Christ. He will be dearly missed as the anchor of our family.