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NAMPA - Funeral services for Mr. Glenn T. Massey, 79, 624 14th
Ave. S., will be held at 3:30 p.m. Monday at the First
Methodist Church with the Rev. Keith Mills and Rev. Edward
Dixon of the First Methodist Church officiating.
Interment will follow at the Canyon Hill Cemetery in
Caldwell under the direction of the Alsip Funeral Chapel.
The family suggests memorials to the First Methodist Church of
Nampa.
Mr. Massey died at a Nampa hospital Thursday following
a short illness. He was born April 2, 1887 at Iuka,
Ill., and when he was 6 months old was taken to Oxford, Kan.
by his parents where his father, Wilbur M. Massey, became
superintendent of Oxford, schools, and later editor of the
Oxford Register. For one summer the family lived at
Winfield, Kan. where his father took degrees at Southwest
Weselyan College.
About 1896 the family moved to Belle Paine, Kan. where
his father was superintendent of schools. In 1899 the
family moved to Wellington, Kan. where in 1903 Glenn and his
brother Charles graduated at the same time from Sumner County
High School.
After a year's post graduate work in business school,
Mr. Massey was employed in 1904 by the Wellington Mill and
Elevator Company of Wellington, Kan. until 1909 when he
resigned the position of auditor to become a "sage brusher" at
Jerome, Idaho. After two years of ranching he was deputy
county treasurer of old Lincoln County (Now Lincoln, Minidoka,
Jerome and Gooding counties.)
In 1913 he was chosen assistant cashier of the Farmers
and Merchants State Bank of Jerome, which was later converted
to "The Jerome National Bank". Later that year, on
October,15, 1913 he was united in marriage to Agnes A. Helman.
He joined the Masonic Lodge at Wellington, Kan. In June
of 19008 and at the time of his death was a member of Jerome
Lodge No. 61, A.F. & A.M.
Mr. Massey joined the Wall and Rawlings Grocery
organization on March 1, 1929, the year he came to Nampa.
He incorporated the company and remained a vice president
until its dis-incorporation in 1935. He remained with
the company as accountant and office manager until his death.
He was a very active member of the Nampa First
Methodist Church, and since 1901 had sung in Methodist Church
choirs.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Agnes Massey, Nampa; a
daughter, Mrs. Julia Beaman, Caldwell; three granddaughters,
Mrs. Sondra Skinner, Boise, Mrs. Theresa Hilton, Tacoma,
Wash., and Miss Julie Dawne Beaman, Caldwell; and three great
grandchildren. |
