Glen Allan Lincicome

Glen Allan Lincicome

PARENTS: Marion Edgar Lincicome and Freda Elizabeth Pitts

BIRTH: 6 Jun 1932, Akron, Summit Co., OH

RESEARCHER: In August 1986, Glen Allan Lincicome published, "My Mother's People - Book One - Pitts, Morgan, Yoho and Related Families."

BIOGRAPHY: Autobiography
I, Glen Allan Lincicome was born on 6 June 1932 in Akron, Summit County, OH.  I arrived at 2:00 a.m. that Monday morning in the home of my parents, with C.M.L. Beatty the attending physician.  At the time, my folks had lived in their home at 507 Pauline Avenue, in the Ellet district, nearly five years.  Willis was then eight years old and Leonard was five.

Mom's other sons had been born in hospitals, Willis in a Detroit hospital and Leonard in one in Akron, and she often said to me, "If you weren't born at home, I'd swear you didn't belong to me."  She said it in jest (I think).

Within minutes of my birth, I was greeted (?) by my two older brothers.  Dad roused them from their sleep and brought them in to the room where I was born. He was sure they would be tickled about the newest addition.  They were not. One of them, on seeing his little brother for the first time, made the observation, "What an ugly brute!"  The other's comment was, "If that's all the bigger he is, just throw him out the window."

The "ugly brute" survived -- Mom and Dad mercifully did not throw me out the window!  -- and now, 54 years later, I'm alive and well in Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio, my home since 1959.

I attended Ellet schools (as my brothers had) and was graduated from Ellet High School in 1951.  Next came six months employment at Akron's Mayflower Hotel as a room clerk.  In December of that year I enlisted in the Air Force for four years.  That was during the time of the Korean Conflict.

After basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, I was sent to Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for two months training as a teletype operator.  From there I went to Patrick Air Force Base in Florida, and next came a 12-month tour of duty on Grand Bahama Island, B.W.I.  The last two and a half years of the enlistment were served at Laurence G. Hanscom Field at Bedford, Massachusetts, outside Boston.  In December 1955 I was honorably discharged.

For about six months of my last year in the service, I "moonlighted" on the night trick as an attendant at Ring Sanatorium in Arlington, Mass.  Money earned there, plus what I was able to save from my Air Force pay, helped the next year when I started college on the G.I. Bill.

Three months after my Air Force discharge, I enrolled at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio and began classes in March 1956.  By going to school in the summers, I was able to complete my requirements in three years and received my B.A. Degree in Jun 1959.  A journalism major, I worked on the school newspaper, the "Kent Stater" (including one quarter as "Stater" editor), and served a three-month internship at the Warren "Tribune Chronicle" (during the summer of 1958).  The next spring, having completed all requirements necessary for graduation, I began work with the Akron "Beacon Journal" as that newspaper's Wayne County Bureau Chief.  It was my first full-time newspaper job, and it was exactly that, "full-time."  The job required me to cover every village council and school board meeting throughout the county, write feature stories, take pictures, report all accidents, and -- routinely -- check out events at the court house, Wooster College, hospitals and so forth, plus write a daily column.  The bureau chief was on call seven days a week, 24 hours a day.  The pace of the one-man operation became a bit hectic, but I stayed on until September, staying a week beyond my resignation date until a replacement could be found and indoctrinated.

From Wooster, Ohio I came to Urbana, Ohio and will soon have been here for 27 years -- or half my lifetime.

I arrived in Urbana on Sunday, Sept. 13, 1959 and started to work the next day at the Urbana "Daily Citizen."  Publisher of the newspaper then was Clarence J. "Bud" Brown, Jr. and he hired me late that summer after an exchange of letters, telephone calls and a personal interview.

"Bud" Brown departed from the "Citizen" in 1965, preceding mine by a few weeks. I left in the fall for a job with the Springfield "Daily News."  While on assignment for that newspaper four years later, I "stumbled into" another offer.

When interviewing Neal Kresheck in late 1969 (he was then the new administrator of Springfield's Community Hospital), he turned the tables and began interviewing me.  The upshot of it was that he offered me a position as the hospital's director of Community Relations and Development.  I accepted, and became a P.R. (public relations) man.  The job lasted until the '70s and then I resigned.

Since then I have attempted a number of things.  In the mid-1970s I took an interior decorating course offered at Bellefontaine, Ohio and spent time painting, wallpapering and the like.

At the age of 44 I even tried a second "go" at college.  I enrolled in the Tennessee Temple Schools at Chattanooga.  Once I had made up my mind to go by mid-summer of that year (1976) I feverishly set about writing to Kent State and had them send a transfer of my grades to Tennessee Temple, and did all the other things necessary to resuming college.  When word came that I had been accepted I was ready to go.

I left Urbana the last week in August, and returned -- because of health problems -- about seven weeks or so later, about mid-October.  I went back down the next January at the start of the next term, but came home before classes started.  It occurred to me:  I had not waited for the Lord's beckoning.  What I had thought was His Will was my will.

Later that year - in December 1977 -- when both of my parents were hospitalized, I was there for them.  And I am grateful for what He allowed me to do for them during the last years of their lives.

Sometime after my Mom's death in 1979 and before Dad's three years later, I started researching my family "roots."  The research has been long, involved and costly, and I wrote a first book, about my mothers people, "My Mother's People - Book One - Pits, Morgan, Yoho and Related Families," which I published in August 1986.  Other books are to follow.

About now I can hear my Aunt Beatrice saying (as she often did), "And that's the end of the story."  So it is.
(Source:  "My Mother's People - Book One - Pitts, Morgan, Yoho and Related Families," by Glen A. Lincicome, August 1986)

RESIDENCES: In August 1986, Glen A. Lincicome resided at: 454 1/2 Scioto St.; Urbana, Ohio 43078.

DEATH: 27 Feb 2006

BURIAL: 3 Mar 2006, Akron, Summit Co., OH, Hillside Memorial Park

CEMETERY:
Glen A. Lincicome
Birth: Jun. 6, 1932 [Akron, Summit Co., OH]
Death: Feb. 27, 2006

OBITUARY: Glen A. Lincicome, of Urbana, died Feb. 27, 2006.
He was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 6, 1932, to Marion and Freda (Pitts) Lincicome. Following graduation from Ellet High School in 1951, Glen served four years in the United States Air Force and then attended Kent State University, earning his degree in journalism. He was employed as a writer and reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal, the Urbana Daily Citizen, and the Springfield News-Sun.

Preceded in death by his parents, and by brothers, Willis and Leonard Lincicome, Glen is survived by sister-in-law, Mary Ila Lincicome; nieces and nephews, Karen Lincicome and husband, Richard Pranzarone, Lori Lincicome Conant, Gary Lincicome, and Lee Lincicome. He is also survived by dear friend, Vivian Murphy of Urbana.

Services will be held Friday, March 3, at 4 p.m., at the Vernon Funeral Home (937-653-8888) in Urbana, with Pastor David Fleming officiating. Friends may call two hours prior to the service. Private burial will take place at Hillside Memorial Park in Akron. 

Burial:
Hillside Memorial Park, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA

Created by: Beverly Sprowl Teibel, Record added: Feb 26, 2007
(Source: Find A Grave Memorial# 180817150