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Glenn Coleman Obituary
Wilmington - Glenn R. Coleman, Jr., age 89, of Wilmington, DE passed away on Monday, April 5, 2021.
Born in Crumpton, MD, in 1931, Glenn was the son of the late Glenn R. Coleman, Sr., and Nettie Neal Coleman. He graduated from Sudlersville High Scholl in Maryland with the class of 1948. He was a graduate of Goldey Beacom. He served in the U.S. Navy at Bainbridge, MD from 1951 to 1955. He began work with DuPont in 1957 at the DuPont Engineering Louviers Site and worked there until 1980 when he transferred to the Corporate Employee Relations Department where he consulted and worked with many of the DuPont Plant sites. He retired in 1985 after 28 years with DuPont. He started his own consulting business (Ability Measurement and Development) and continued to do consulting with DuPont at multiple plant sites. In addition, he also did consulting at Arco Chemical Company and Merck Pharmaceutical Company.
Glenn enjoyed playing golf and belonged to the DuPont Country Club and was a member of the Automotive Golf League for many years. He was also a former member of the Rehoboth Beach Country Club.
Glenn was predeceased by his brothers and sisters-in-law: Robert (Ellen Ross), Billy (Mildred), Jimmy (Kathryn), brother Jesse, sister Barbara Ann, and brother-in-law Elwood Jack Moore. He is survived by his wife, Regina; his sister, Patricia; his daughters: Theresa Coleman (Carol LaPenta) and Betsy Coleman Kelley; and step-son Cary Alexander (Sarah); Granddaughters: Kristen Hessey Howell (Ricky), Lauren Hessey Birch (Jason), Riley Elizabeth Alexander and Mary Helen Alexander. Also seven great-grandchildren: Avery, Jameson, Brennan, and Hadleigh (Howell) and Piper, Jackson, and Ellison (Birch), and many nieces and nephews.
The family would like to offer a special thank you to the staff at Kutz Rehabilitation and Nursing Home for the great care and services provided to Glenn.
Glenn was a tremendous family man and will be deeply missed by his family and many, many friends.
All services will be private. In lieu of flowers please send donations to the Ronald McDonald House, 1901 Rockland Rd., Wilmington, DE 19803.
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Billy Fulmer
April 11, 2021
Glenn was a great friend of mine, who I will miss dearly. I played hundreds of rounds of golf with him and drank many beers afterwards, listening to his unending list of corny jokes. How he remembered them all, I will never know. Glenn was a "salt of the earth" guy who loved his family and friends. What he had to go through for the last year really saddened me. Though I hate to see him go, I know he is now in a better place.
I have posted some of the many pictures I have taken of Glenn during his years playing in the Automotive Golf League and emceeing its banquets.
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