ROBERT DAVIS GLASS Sr.

GLASS,Justice Robert Davis, Sr., 78, of 159 Westmont Drive, died Tuesday, November 27, at his home. He was the husband of Doris (Powell) Glass. Justice Glass was born November 28, 1922, in Wetumpka, AL, son of the late Isaiah and M.E. Glass. He was an Army veteran, having served from 1943 to 1946. He was awarded the Good Conduct Medal, World War II Victory and Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medals. He received a bachelor of arts degree, magna cum laude, in 1949 from North Carolina College at Durham (currently North Carolina Central University), and in 1951 graduated from the Law School of North Carolina at Durham with a bachelor of law degree, cum laude (replaced by a juris doctorate in 1971). Justice Glass was admitted to the practice of law in North Carolina in 1951, and in Connecticut in 1962. He served as a judge for the Connecticut Juvenile Court, the Connecticut Superior Court, and was named an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court on June 26, 1987. He retired from the state's high court in November 1992 and became a trial referee for the state. He was also a member of National and American Bar Associations, an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut, and a claims examiner for the Connecticut Labor Department. He was a member of Waterbury Committee on Human Rights, the North Carolina Conference of the NAACP, and was on the Board of Corporators for The Banking Center. He was a former president of the Pearl Street Neighborhood House in Waterbury. Justice Glass, was a member of Zion Baptist Church, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, and a life member of NAACP. He also was a 32nd Degree Mason of Kellogg Lodge No. 5, F and A.M. of Connecticut, Inc., a member of the Elks Club, and William Wilson American Legion Post 135. Besides his wife, he leaves a son, Robert D. Glass, Jr.; two daughters, Roberta G. Brown and Rosalyn G. Roundtree, and two grandchildren. Arrangements: Funeral 11 a.m. Monday at Zion Baptist Church, 137 Pearl St., Waterbury. Calling hour 10 to 11 a.m. Monday at the church. Burial: New Pine Grove Cemetery. Arrangements by Pender Funeral Home, 116 East Farm St., Waterbury. Contributions, M.E. Glass Scholarship Fund, North Carolina Central University School of Law, 1801 Fayetteville St., Durham, NC, 27707.