Glen Chambers

1928 - 2025

Glen Chambers
April 25, 1928 - November 22, 2025
We celebrate the life of Glen Robert Chambers who passed away peacefully on Nov. 22, 2025 at 97 years of age. He will be remembered by his family and friends for his kindness, love and Christian service. Glen was born in Grafton, ND on April 25, 1928 to Roy and Blanche Chambers. His Scotch-Irish parents loved and cherished Glen, his older sister Winifred and younger sister Connie. Glen was the little shadow to his soft-spoken father from planting to harvesting on the family farm. Glen loved the sheep, pigs, cows and horses and especially playing hide-and-seek with his pet goat Biddy, and cross-country skiing at night drawn through the fields by his horse. In 1946, as a high school senior, Glen took the advice of his WWI Army-veteran father and enlisted in the Navy before he was drafted into WWII. He was called up early and missed his high school graduation, which is why attending his children and grandchildren's graduations was so important to him. While onboard ship to his Hawaii Naval Base, he and hundreds of the crew got severe chicken-based food poisoning which caused Glen to overcook grilled chicken the rest of his life. He respectfully served his country and upon his discharge two years later, he arrived at the family farm to find the long, snowy driveway illuminated by the first yard light and Christmas lights twinkling in the house windows. Electricity had arrived. Glen pursued and obtained his agriculture degree at NDSU and while attending college his father made the final farm mortgage payment, a miraculous feat that began when Roy used his WWI pay to save the farm from foreclosure. Glen realized with that final payment, he could never ask his father to re-mortgage the farm to expand it and fulfill his own farming dreams, so instead he used his agricultural experience and college degree to work with farmers first as a veterans agriculture teacher in Wishek, ND, and then as an agriculture agent briefly for the University of North Dakota and for the majority of his career at the University of Minnesota serving Wilkin County and then Aitkin County, and a short time in between for the National Flax Development Association. He retired as an Agriculture Extension Director in 1994, after more than three decades serving farmers, farm families and hundreds of 4-Hers through the Extension Service. While working in Wishek he fell in love. Hulda Mueller, a college-educated and working accountant, was visiting her parents when they met. They dated Monday-Thursday. On Friday he proposed, and on Sunday she accepted. Six months later they married and didn't tell this story until their 40th wedding anniversary after all of their daughters were happily married. Glen and Hulda lovingly shared 71 years and 10 months together as best friends, partners, community and church leaders. They were inseparable in a way we all envied. Every night before bed and even in their final moments together they said, "I love you. Always have, always will." In this loving, respectful, Christian partnership they raised their daughters Susan, Cynthia, Ruth, Amy and Gretchen, supporting every activity they jumped into from 4-H to school to church activities. As a father of 5 girls Glen was often asked if he wished he had boys, to which he answered with a twinkle in his eye, "When you have the girls, you get the boys whether you like it or not." Through their five marriages he had sons he loved like his own - Craig, Doug, Dean, Darrell and Dave - and subsequently the family grew with 14 amazing grandchildren and 19 energetic great-grandchildren. Hulda, their daughters and grands will remember Glen's laughter; soft hugs; infinite kindness; complete dedication to family; inability to leave an auction without a hammer; incredible "Once upon a time" bedtime stories; pinky waves; tractor rides in the yard; his love of Bison football; his volunteerism; continuous support of the grands from the sidelines and stands; his reminder to drive safely and call when you get home; and his unbreakable Christian values. Glen will be remembered and celebrated by his loving wife, Hulda (Mueller) Chambers; daughters and sons-in-law, Susan and Craig Nelson, Cynthia and Doug Cameron, Ruth and Dean Otteman, Amy and Darrell Skog, and Gretchen and Dave DeSutter; grandchildren, Jason and Chelsea Chambers, Joshua and Corinne (Shor) Nelson, Jessica (Nelson) and Kevin Krogstad, Ansley Cameron, Hayley (Cameron) and Tony Arkelpane, Analey (Skog) and Jason Satre, Ethan and Katie Skog, Brittany (Skog) and Chance Johnson, Cody and Abbi Skog, Noah DeSutter, Michael DeSutter, Evan DeSutter and Cooper DeSutter. And in heavenly remembrance by Elliot Otteman.
A celebration of life service will be 11 a.m. – Friday, December 12, 2025 at the United Methodist Church in Aitkin. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church. Military honors will be accorded by Aitkin VFW Post 1727 and American Legion Post #86. Lunch will follow at church. Glen's family will have the Committal Service and Interment at Minnesota State Veterans Cemetery at Camp Ripley, Little Falls. Arrangements are with Sorensen-Root-Thompson Funeral Home in Aitkin. www.srtfuneral.com