October 04, 1929 - August 14, 2020
The Services Celebrating and Honoring the life of John Joseph Glaze, 90, of Enid, will be held 1:00 P.M. Friday August 21, 2020 in the First Assembly of God Church, with Pastor Dan Barrick officiating. Burial will follow in the Memorial Park Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.
John was born in Westmorland, California on October 4, 1929 to Clarence Dewitt and Eunice Myrtle (Pitts) Glaze Sr. and passed from this life August 14, 2020 at his home after a short illness. John graduated from Enid High School in 1948. In 1950 he enlisted for four years in the United States Air Force serving one year in Korea during the Korean War.
In 1961 John married Clara Jean Bell on July 22 in Highland, CA before making their home in Enid. John worked twenty-eight years for the Enid post office and then at least ten years as a custodian for Enid Public Schools.
John had a great love for the outdoors and one way to enjoy it was on the back of his bicycle riding it many miles over the years all over Northwest Oklahoma.
He is survived by his wife of fifty nine years, Jean, of the home, a daughter Susan Rice and husband Gary, of Ringwood, two sons, David Glaze and wife Gwen, of Hunter, and John E. Glaze, of Enid; three granddaughters Christi Gay and husband Eric, of Iowa, Sherry Rice, of Colorado Springs, CO, and Virginia Glaze, of Alhambra, CA; one brother Bob Christensen and wife Molly, of Meza, AZ, one sister Joyce Keahey and husband Dwayne, of McKinney, TX.
He was preceded in death by his parents Clarence Glaze and Eunice Glaze Christensen, Stepfather Newt Christensen, four sisters, four brothers, and his beloved grandson, Conrad Rice.
Condolences may be made to the family online at www.Brown-Cummings.com. As one of Oklahomaʼs oldest single family owned and operated providers of funerals and cremations, Brown-Cummings is the name families have turned to for generations. They fully understand the honor and responsibility entrusted to them to preserve the story of oneʼs life. Visit 400 W. Maple, Enid, OK 73701. Call: (580) 237-5432.
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