Alice F. Glover

Alice U. Glover was born into this world on February 20, 1931, and born into eternal life on June 26, 2018. Her parents, Amelia and Simon Union, preceded Alice in death. Alice’s husband of 60 years, Herbert C. Glover, passed away on April 18, 2013 at the age of 79. Alice is survived by her brother Richard F. Union, her four children Dennis H. Glover, Dr. Susan D. Glover, Dr. Christine A. Glover, and Michael C. Glover, as well as her grandchildren Mark Chaplin, Alex Chaplin, and Lauren Grasso (Dr. Susan Glover’s and Dr. Martin Chaplin’s children), Sarah Pelton and Kaitlyn Pelton (Dr. Christine Glover’s and Dr. Pelton’s children), and Charles and Max Glover (Michael and Nancy Glover’s children). Born and raised in a very tight-knit Lebanese family that came to the US in the late 1800’s, Alice always cherished the importance and strength of family. Alice was raised largely by a single mother (and her many aunts) and married at the tender age of just 21, and set out to lift her and her new husband’s future upward. While starting a family, she worked as a secretary at the Engineering College at Wayne State University, and later for the Bursar’s Office at WSU. Alice helped her husband Herbert pay his way through WSU for his undergraduate education degree and when he got a job as a teacher, he then helped pay for Alice’s education at WSU, where she obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in 1969. Eventually, Alice also got her Master’s Degree in education from Eastern Michigan in 1974 and Herb got his Masters Degree in education from the University of Michigan. Alice worked teaching business subjects (accounting and bookkeeping, typing, shorthand, etc.) at Cousino High School in Warren her entire teaching career while raising a family of four rambunctious children. Alice and Herbert were both raised in Detroit, moved with their children to Warren in 1965, and then to their current home in Romeo in 1979. In 1973, Alice and Herb decided to also purchase a run-down farm in the Thumb area of Michigan — mostly as a summer retreat, and as they explained to us children, to keep us out of trouble. There, we learned farming techniques, what to do with hundreds of heads of cabbage and piles of green beans, and how to get along together in a small 2 bedroom farmhouse during those hot summers. Alice and Herb also made it a point to spend large portions of their summers off from teaching to take their children traveling, camping along the way as we all visited almost every National Park in the US. In 1969, in the Yosemite Valley in California, we all watched near the Merced river an outdoor TV live broadcast of the first time a man walked on the moon. In the mid 1980’s Alice and Herb, along with Alice’s brother Richard and son Dennis, acquired a small apartment complex in Romeo which Alice, with her business acumen, managed for 30 years as virtually a second career. In recent years, after the death of her beloved husband Herb over five years ago, Alice began to experience the beginnings of the effects of dementia, and the related side-effects of that dread disease ultimately resulted in Alice joining her husband, parents, grandparents and other family and friends in Heaven on the morning of June 26, 2018, as she was surrounded by her daughter Dr. Susan Glover and one of her many caregivers while resting comfortably in the home she loved for nearly 40 years in Romeo. Alice’s love of family, business acumen, and love of life will be desperately missed by all of us. But mom was ready for and looking forward to this next step into eternity. She belongs to the angels now.