Alma Emmanuel Andersen Glad

Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, into Niels' "second family" on 16 June 1899, Alma Emmanuel Andersen (Al) was the third youngest offspring of Niels Peter Andreasen and Alfine Charlotte Olsen. He was raised a Morman in Salt Lake City, where his father, Niels, ran a prosperous tailor shop on Temple Square. His mother, Alfine, passed away when he was still a teenager.

Al attended school only through the eighth grade, and in accordance with family tradition, was apprenticed to his father to become a tailor. Al was so disinterested and so inept at tailoring that he was summarily dismissed by his father. The pants he was making for himself were completed by his half-brother, Monk. He held numerous jobs, such as delivery boy for a drug store, after that. When World War I came along, Al enlisted as a private in the Army Corp of Engineers and spent the war in Brest, France. He was still a private when he was discharged after the armistice, and spent most his time in France loading and unloading ships and in mess-cooking duties.

Somewhere after that, Al, along with all of the male sibling of the "second family", legally added the Glad surname, becoming Alma Emmanuel Andersen Glad. This was said to be a Danish clan name discovered by one of Al's older brothers while on a mission in Denmark for the LDS church.

Al met Maude LaVerne Morby in a Morman church in Ogden, Utah, where LaVerne's parents mistook him for a missionary because he wound the clock in the church hall each Sunday. After a brief courtship, they were married in the Morman Temple in Salt Lake City 16 May 1923 and moved to Denver, Colorado, where Al obtained employment as a teller in a bank. Al spent his night attending night classes at the local university to sharpen his accounting and business skills. This was to be Al's lifetime career.

After about two years, Al and LaVerne followed LaVerne's parents to Santa Monica, California. Al obtained employment with the Bank of Italy in nearby Venice California, and settled down to raise a family. He was to remain with the Bank of America (renamed from the Bank of Italy in about 1930) for almost 40 years, until he retired in 1965. Despite his lack of formal education, he was promoted to manager of the Venice Branch in about 1930 and remained at that branch for the balance of his career.

Al moved his family to Venice in the early thirties and was active in local community affairs. He served on the Venice chamber of commerce and was secretary of the local Lions Club for many years. LaVerne was very active in the Parent Teacher Association and the Venice Woman's Club during the same time, holding several high elective offices in each.

Al and LaVerne relocated to Leisure World, Laguna Hills, California, in 1970 where he and his wife lived until his death, at age 85, on new years eve 1984. He died of complications from a heart attack. LaVerne survived him by 11 years, passing in 1995 at the age of 91 after a period of ill health. She had moved from Leisure World to West Covina, California, where she lived with her caregiver. LaVerne simply stopped breathing one day and left this world peaceably.

Dain Sturgis Glad