Dr. John Glennon

Glennon, Dr. John GRANVILLE Dr. John Glennon passed away at his home on Monday, August 22, 2011 following a long illness. John was born on December 20, 1932 in Kingston, N.Y., the son of the late John B. and Nell (Avery) Glennon. John was a graduate of Union College in Schenect-ady and Albany Medical College in 1958. John married Anita Morin on November 24, 1955. John, Anita and their budding family left for Staten Island Hospital in Hagerstown, Md., where he serviced his residency in public health. Upon completion of this, they moved to Granville where John opened a practice which spanned from 1961 until December of 1998 when he retired. He and Anita served as medical missionaries in the Dominican Republic. John's devotion to medicine and his young family, interpreted into vacations spent with John volunteering for two week stints in places such as Okenagan, Washington, at the Federal Prison in Lewisburg, Pa., at an AIDS clinic in Provincetown, Mass., and at a federal prison hospital, Harrisburg, Pa., and during the Cuban Crisis at Indiantown Gap, Pa. John spent the two weeks covering for other doctors so that they could have vacation time. John was much more to the Granville area then a kind and caring family practitioner. He and his wife Anita (who in addition to being a wife and mother was also a nurse) served the public in many other ways. Their strong faith brought them to immeasurable heights when it came to public service. Some examples of this was serving as school physician, volunteering for many years at Washington County Head Start, serving with Carl Clapper to help with the handicapped children's program and with Pat Harrison, R.N., working on the utilization committee reviewing charts for public health nursing at their office in Hudson Falls. Always ready to help those in need, John frequently raided the kitchen and freezer of their large family to fill boxes of food for those in need, which he gave away. Along with their parish priest and good friend Father Paul Roman, they started what is now known as the Ecumenical Food Pantry and is housed in the basement of St. Mary's Church. John wanted to take his faith a step farther and was ordained a deacon in 1982 by Bishop Howard Hubbard, where he served in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany. His assignment from the diocese was to serve with Father James Hayes as a chaplain at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, N.Y. Not one to be idle, after John retired from his medical practice he received his master's in theology at Westminster Chapel at Oxford University in Cambridge, England, in 2000. John and Anita started spending their winters in Leesburg, Fla., where John served the Orlando Diocese. He filled in as a chaplain for the Leesburg Regional Medical Center. He also volunteered at the Free Baptist Clinic which provided medical assistance for those without health insurance. John was predeceased by his parents; by his eldest child Mary Bergmeier in 1998 from breast cancer; and in 2005 by a grandson Zachary Bergmeier who had just returned from Fallujah and Samarrah in Iraq. John was the eldest of his siblings, they are William and his wife Terry and two sons, James (predeceased) and his wife Geraldine, all of Kingston, N.Y., his sister Margaret Jasinski and her husband Frank and their six children, all of Massachusetts. John and Anita were blessed with their children, who survive, John, John Glennon Jr. and his wife Rhonda of North Carolina, Robert and his wife Sarah of Brattleboro, Vt., Ann Benjamin and her husband David of Keene, N.H., Elizabeth Dean and her husband Jason of E. Swanzey, New Hampshire, and Joseph Glennon and Teryll Rainey of California. In a continuation of his large family, John is survived by his beloved grandchildren, Jacob Bergmeier and his wife Diana of Connecticut, Kirsten Glennon and Stephanie of Massachusetts, Lisa Lamont and her husband Eric of Maine, Veronica Glennon of Richmond, Va., Jonathan Glennon of New York and Clark, Graham and Rhys Glennon, all of Brattleboro. The newest member of the family is great-granddaughter Lillian Jane Bergmeier. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, 23 Bulkley Ave., Granville, with the Rev. Thomas Zelker and Bishop Howard Hubbard presiding. Burial will follow at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Middle Granville, N.Y. Friends may call on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 from 2-5 and 6-8 p.m. with a prayer vigil at 7:45 p.m. by Fr. Joe at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, 23 Bulkley Ave., Granville, NY. Arrangements are under the direction of the Robert M King Funeral Home, 23 Church St., Granville, NY.