Glendon Ellis or Glenny, had an accident when he was a child that left him severely scarred on his lower chin and the front of his neck although it is not evident in the picture.
He was oldest son of Clarence Ellis and Madeline Hubbard, the oldest girl in the Elmer Hubbard family and my father’s oldest sister. I remember the cord-like scarring that deformed the front of his neck and chin reaching almost to his lower lip. He had the misfortune to drop a flammable celluloid baby rattle on a hot stove top and it immediately burst into flame. That, of course, was before any type of consumer protection and Glenny paid the price as did probably many other children of that era.
Glenny was in the Army Air Corp, before it became the US Air Force. He was stationed in Scotland and he brought home a beautiful “war bride”, Bunny. Not sure what he did in the corp, but I remember him in uniform a couple of times. Bunny was beautiful, always glamorously dressed, coiffed, and in full make-up. She was very soft-voiced, feminine and extremely polite.
Glenny took up the Hammond Organ in mid-life and I remember him playing it several times. Like his mother Madeline and his Uncle Earle, he died relatively young of a heart attack. I think it was before he was fifty.
At his funeral, I remember Bunny saying something like, “He just laid down on the couch to take a nap and never woke up.” Probably not a bad way to go.....
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