“We became good friends and one thing just led to another,” she said of how they came to marry.

Glenn was born in Meadville in April 1928, but was raised in Cambridge Springs and graduated from Cambridge Springs High School, said his wife.

When the first charter was awarded to Cambridge Springs Boy Scout Troop 235, in 1942, Glenn was a member of the first group, Emil Samec, unit commissioner for the Washington Trails District of the French Creek Council of Boy Scouts, recalled Monday.

Following high school graduation, Glenn worked about two years in the Brookville area at a light bulb plant in the late 1940s before visiting an uncle in Washington, D.C. The uncle advised him to submit a resume for a federal job before returning home, said his wife.

Glenn got hired initially as a typist and rose up through the ranks.

With Glenn’s passing, Cambridge Springs has lost one of the borough’s main goodwill ambassadors, according to friends.

“If anybody was — I would say Howard,” said Mayor Gorske when asked if Glenn could be considered “Mr. Cambridge Springs.”

“He was friendly and outgoing, always good at trying to get people to talk,” said Gorske, who had served with Glenn on borough council since 1999. “He was thoughtful and approachable.”

“He loved people,” said Tom Brown, another fellow councilman who knew Glenn for years. “We could shoot the breeze for hours about anything we wanted.”

Those conversations ranged from current events of the time to borough business.

“We could disagree, but agree to disagree,” Brown said.

Richard Massung, a former chief of Cambridge Springs Volunteer Fire Department, knew Glenn as was someone who was easy to talk to and was interested in people. “He tried to know what was going on,” said Massung. “He loved Cambridge Springs.”

Keith Gushard can be reached at 724-6370 or by e-mail at kgushard@meadvilletribune.com.