Richard Mortimer Glover
Richard Mortimer Glover,
M.D., who delivered many of the current citizens of Newton during more than
four decades as a family physician, died Saturday (Jan. 26, 2008). He was 86.
Dr. Glover was born Feb. 28,
1921, in Newton to Harold Mortimer Glover, M.D., and Marguerite Axtell Glover.
He attended Newton schools and graduated from Newton High School in 1939.
After attending Dartmouth
College, he graduated from Colorado College in 1943 with a B.S. degree in
biology.
On March 27, 1944, he married
Elizabeth Royce Hollingsworth of Denver.
He served his country as a
member of a U.S. Army field artillery unit from 1943 to 1946. Following his
military service, he enrolled at Denver University, receiving a master of
physiology degree in 1947.
In 1953, Dr. Glover received
his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine.
He served a one-year internship in general practice at St. Joseph's Hospital
before establishing a family medicine practice at Axtell Clinic in Newton that
continued until his retirement in 1996.
He was the third of four
generations of the Axtell family to serve Newton as physicians, following in
the footsteps of his grandparents, Drs. John T. and Lucena Chase Axtell, and
his father.
Dr. Glover was an avid hunter
and fisherman who loved the outdoors with his Brittany spaniels and treasured
his vacations in Green Mountain Falls, Colo. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi
fraternity, Nu Sigma Nu medical fraternity, board member of the Kansas
Foundation for Medical Care, Harvey County Medical Society, Kansas Medical
Society, American Medical Association, Kansas Health Foundation, St. Matthew's
Episcopal Church, Newton Rotary Club and the Elks Club.
Survivors include his wife of
63 years, Betty; three daughters, Nancy and Dr. Charles Craig of Newton, Meg
and Bruce Henderson of Dallas, and Mary and Dr. Rick Beck of Newton; two sons,
Dr. Rick and Rochelle Glover of Newton and Jim and Stephanie Glover of Oklahoma
City; 14 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by
his parents and his sisters, Lucena Glover Sills and Patricia Glover Knupp.
Family members will greet
visitors from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Broadway Colonial Funeral Home in Newton.
A memorial service will be at
11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Newton.
Arrangements are being
handled by Broadway Colonial Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, the
family has established memorials with Newton Medical Center, Presbyterian Manor
of Newton and St. Matthew's Episcopal Church.
1921 - 2008 (86 years)