Glyndon “Glen” West
Friday, June 27, 1930
Date of Death:
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Age:
82 years old
Visitation
Date: Thursday June 27, 2013
Time: 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: River Park Chapel at Macken Funeral Home [ view map ]
Second Visitation
Date: Friday June 28, 2013
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Autumn Ridge Timothy Chapel [ view map ]
Funeral Service
Date: Friday June 28, 2013
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Autumn Ridge Timothy Chapel [ view map ]
Burial
Location: Oakwood Cemetery
Friday, June 27, 1930
Date of Death:
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Age:
82 years old
Friday, June 27, 1930
Date of Death:
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Age:
82 years old
Glyndon “Glen” West
The funeral service for Glyndon L. West will be at 11:00AM, Friday, June 28, 2013 in the Timothy Chapel of Autumn Ridge Church with the Pastor Bill Price officiating. Visitation will be 5:00PM – 8:00PM, Thursday, June 27, 2013 in the River Park Chapel at Macken Funeral Home and one prior to the service at the church on Friday. Burial will be at Oakwood Cemetery.
Mr. West, 82, of Rochester, died Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at Cottagewood Senior Community in Rochester.
Glen was born on June 27, 1930 in Rochester. He was raised in Rochester and served in the US Army in Germany during the Korean Conflict. After military service, he graduated from Mankato State College with a teaching degree. He later worked for home builder George Alexander and eventually owned his own home building company, G.L. West Builders.
He married Joann E. Dodge on January 31, 1959 in Rochester. Mrs. West was a retired phy-ed teacher and homemaker at the time of her death. She passed away on September 15, 2004.
Glen is survived by two sons; Tim A. (Janice) West of Boston, MA, Corey J. (Laura) West of Stewartville; one daughter, Colleen (Jeff) Hanson of Milwaukee, WI; three grandchildren, Samuel A. West, deployed to Afghanistan, Sarah A. and Jacob S. West both of Stewartville. He is also survived by two sister-in-laws, Elaine West and Muriel West, both of Rochester.
Glen was preceded in death by his wife and two brothers.
Glen was past president of the Rochester Home Builders Association, a member of the Rochester Racing Pigeon Club and the Isaac Walton League. He enjoyed activities with the History Center of Olmsted County.
Memorials are suggested to the Isaac Walton League or the History Center of Olmsted County.
Condolences
The family of Glyndon “Glen” West has received the following condolences.
Our sympathy to the West family. Glyndon and Corey built a wonderful addition onto our home back in 1992. We are still in that house and have so often talked about the great work Glyndon did and the integrity with which he worked. It was a privilege to have him working in our home. May you keep many fond memories. We will.
The Limpert family
Tim, Corey, and Colleen,
So sorry to hear about your loss, my prayers and thought are with you at this sad time in your lives. I have so many fond memories of the whole family.
Will Oliphant
288-1187
To Glydon's Family,
When we first arrived in Rochester Glen built our home. A fine home it was and we raised our children there with great delight. That was 35 years ago. Glen was wonderful to us...a very nice man and a great builder!
I wish to extend my sympathy to you, his family. May he rest in peace upon entereing his heavenly home.
Yours truly,
Ruth Greier
Laura West & Family,
My deepest sympathy for your loss. May you have comfort from friends and family in your time of grief. Treasure the good memories you have.
Lois Babcock
Tim, Corey, Colleen and families:
Please accept my sympathies on the passing of your dad. I know he was special to you all as he was to the entire Dodge/Morris family clan. He will be missed.
I will always remember his obvious love of life and of his loving care of Joann. I so much enjoyed my conversations with Glyndon about family history research.
Think of you all
Jeanette
I wanted to let you know I am sorry for your loss. I cleaned for Glen several years. I was the last person that cleaned for him before he went into the nursing home. He was such a gentle man that was always filled with the Joy of the Lord. I was blessed to have known him. This poem below helped me with the loss of my Mother, it is my prayer that it comforts you.
I am standing upon the sea shore. A ship at my side spreads his white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. He is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch until, at length, he hangs like a speck of white cloud down to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says, "There, he is gone!" Gone? Gone where??
Gone from my sight....that is all. He is just as large in mast and hull and spar as he was when he left my side, and just as able to bear his load of living freight to the place of destination. His diminished size is in me, not in him.
And just at the moment when someone at my side says, "There, he is gone"....There are other eyes watching him coming, and other voices ready to take up the GLAD shout, "There he comes!! There he comes!!
I will be out of town tomorrow and Friday, otherwise I would have come to pay my last respects.
My parents knew Glyndon, and had him build the addition to our home when I was a teenager. Later they had him build them an entire new house. And when we bought land, we got him to build our new house. He was a pleasure to work with, and we still love our house and appreciate the good work he did.
Dear Corey and family,
Sorry to hear of your dads passing. I remember him taking us fishing and laughed that my own dad didn't. I remember him building the new house over in Meadow Park area with the huge garage, dog kennels and Pigeon coop with all white birds. He was quite a guy.
Big hugs
Mark