Person:Glenn Sample (1)

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Glenn Elmer Sample
b.9 May 1917 Highmore, Hyde, South Dakota
d.19 Dec 2006 Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Cathrine Balinda Sample1912 - 1998
  2. Myrna R. SampleAbt 1916 - 1932
  3. Glenn Elmer Sample1917 - 2006
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m. 26 Apr 1942
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Facts and Events
Name Glenn Elmer Sample
Gender Male
Birth? 9 May 1917 Highmore, Hyde, South Dakota
Marriage 26 Apr 1942 VIBORG, TURNER, SOUTH DAKOTAReligious
to Mae Eleanor Nelson
Death? 19 Dec 2006 Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota
Other[1] Obituary

birth parents: Elmer Sample and May Hale

References
  1. ↑ Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Sat., Dec. 23, for Glenn Elmer Sample, 89, Sioux Falls, who died on Dec. 19, 2006, at Sioux Valley Hospital. The services will be held in Grace Lutheran Church, with burial at Hills of Rest Memorial Park in Sioux Falls.
    Visitation begins at 2 p.m. Friday, with the family present from 7-8 p.m., at the George Boom Funeral Home in Sioux Falls.

    Sample was born on May 9, 1917, at Highmore to Elmer and Mary (Hale) Sample. In 1919, he moved with his family to Clear Lake, where he graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1936. He attended South Dakota State College and graduated with a pharmacy degree in 1941. He then worked at a pharmacy in Sioux Falls. He married Mae E. Nelson on April 26, 1942, at Viborg. He entered the U.S. Army on June 1, 1942, and served in the South Pacific during World War II. Following his honorable discharge on Dec. 1, 1946, the couple lived in Wakonda. They owned and operated Sample's Pharmacy in Wakonda for 20 years. They moved to Sioux Falls in 1965. He worked at Mills Park Drug (later known as Ron Park Drug) for the next 30 years before retiring. His wife died on Jan. 1, 1990.

    He was a member of Grace Lutheran Church and a life member of John M. Bliss VFW Post 628.

    Survivors include his wife, Alice of Sioux Falls; two sons, Dale (Jan) of Sioux Falls, and Rich (Barb) of Madison; five grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; three stepchildren, Greg (Kathy) Lukes of Sioux Falls, Gail (Paul) Sletten of Beresford, and Sandra (Larry) Wibeto of Mesa, Ariz.; nine step-grandchildren; and seven step-great-grandchildren.

    He was preceded in death by his parents; wife Mae; and two sisters, Catharine Bruce and Myrna Sample.
    The George Boom Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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