Glenn Ross Sanner

Glenn Sanner was born on March 7, 1933, in Buffalo Mills, Pennsylvania. He was born right after The Great Depression. When his mother died at a young age, his youngest brother was adopted out, and all eight of the kids had to find their own way in life. At twelve years of age, he went to work for a family who owned a farm. Glenn was a survivor and a hard worker. After he worked many years on this farm, an opportunity for him to join the military presented itself. He joined the Air Force in 1953 and was trained as an aircraft mechanic.
Glenn started his career at Sampson Air Force Base in New York where he completed basic training. He married Ruby Shaulis on September 24, 1955. They were first stationed in Chicago, and he worked at O'Hare International Airport. Their first son, John, was born there in September 1956. Their next duty base was in San Antonio, Texas and after that, they were sent to France where their second son, Dean, was born in 1960. After 4 years in France, they came back to Omaha, Nebraska where their last son, David, was born in 1964. Their next assignment was Yokohama, Japan where they lived for 4 years. Their last station was Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, NV. Glenn retired from the Air Force in 1973.
Immediately after retirement, he began working as an automotive mechanic at a local car dealership but found his next long-term job with Clark Equipment repairing forklifts. He eventually became the service manager there. After working 20 years for Clark Equipment, he retired from there and began working again at Pro Tech Security at the Convention Center and the Sands Convention Center. He only stopped working there because he couldn't get clean fingerprints for his background check. That was likely from all his mechanic work wearing down the skin on his fingers.
Glenn was very involved in church his whole life. He was undoubtedly a man of faith, who had a relationship with Christ. He was a Sunday School teacher in his younger days with his wife, and later became a long-term usher at the churches they attended, and he served on several church Deacon boards. He had a Bible reading devotional time every day.
Glenn was an avid hunter. He hunted everything. He got bird dogs and hunted Pheasant, Quail, Duck, Dove, and anything else that would fly and was edible. He also loved hunting deer and elk. He would bring deer meat home every season. Venison was a staple food in the family. He went hunting with many people from his church and also took his kids and their friends hunting. He also loved to fish.
After Glenn stopped working security at the Convention Center, he volunteered at his church cleaning the grounds. Every Saturday he would go to his church with his personal trimmer and blower and make sure everything was clean for Sunday mornings. His wife Ruby passed away in 2014 and the Saturday following her death he was at the church cleaning up. The pastor came out and told him to go home since he just lost his wife, but he said he needed something to do.
Glenn and Ruby were not people of means, but they were very generous with those in need. Glenn was a very generous man even to a fault. Some people took advantage of his kindness, but that never stopped him from doing what he could for others. He loved helping the less fortunate and was always available to do whatever he could. He fixed more people's cars for free than I can even remember. He was constantly getting calls from people who needed car work done but couldn't afford to pay for it. He never complained about helping others, and he never expected people to pay him anything.
Glenn was diagnosed with dementia and eventually Alzheimer's. Although his memory was fading, we always wondered how bad it was because he seemed to remember certain things like how much money you owed him.
Eventually, his health declined, and he passed away on February 7, 2022, at home with his caretaker Brenda Smith.
He is survived by his sister Edna Sanner-Beal, brother Harry Kelly, sons, John, Dean, and David, many grandchildren, and great grandchildren.