Leland Glasgow

Leland Lesley Glasgow Jr. passed away on August 2, 2024, at 93, in Pawnee, Oklahoma.

Leland was born on February 28, 1931, in Temple, Oklahoma, the son of Leland Lesley, Sr. and Blanche Irma (Smith) Glasgow. Leland grew up and attended grade school in Walters and Temple, Oklahoma. He later moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he attended Horace Mann Junior High and graduated from Central High School with the Class of 1949. Leland attended Oklahoma A&M on a wrestling scholarship. Leland was a State Champion and Oklahoma A&M Hall of Fame member. In 1950, Leland enlisted in the Army Corps of Engineers Reserves and was later discharged as a Master Sergeant in 1959. Leland became employed with DX Sunray Oil Company in Tulsa and later transferred to Duncan, Oklahoma. In the late 1970s, Leland moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, with Sun Industries as their purchasing agent, which later became Koch Industries. Leland retired in 1994 and soon accepted a position with Southwest Refractor as their Vice President of Sales, who was fully retired in 1997. In 2006, Leland and his wife, Francis Stephens, moved to Cleveland, where he has continued to reside.

Leland was an avid wrestler and spent many days helping young men learn the sport of wrestling. While living in Duncan, he began a program with five boys in his garage; this was the beginning of the Duncan Schools wrestling program. Leland was active in the wrestling community until 80, when he decided to "hang up his wrestling shoes." In 1957, Leland was one of the founders of the Duncan YMCA; he was also involved in the Little Theater and was a former United Way President in Duncan. Leland was a member and a 32ndDegree Mason, Scottish Rite, Akdar Shriner, Elks Lodge, Boy Scouts of American and Ancient and Beneficent order of the Red Red Rose organizations while being a large supporter of the Salvation Army while claiming that is what saved him and made him what he was.

Leland's hobbies included hunting, fishing at his island cabin in Texas, RV traveling, photography, spending time on his boat, making homemade ice cream, and being very active with his Class of 1949 reunions. Christmas time and Thanksgiving were always highlights of the year for Leland. Watching Gun Smoke or anything John Wayne was always a daily ritual, and he took his daughters to Freddie's Sunday Buffett for their birthday month.

He is survived by his three children Lynda Houchin of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Kay Osburn and husband Butch of Hominy, Oklahoma; Gayla Smith and husband Darrell of Cleveland, Oklahoma from his marriage to Helen Howard Glasgow of Cleveland, Oklahoma; 10 grandchildren, twenty-five great grandchildren, and fourteen great-great-grandchildren, his good friends Carmel & Jim Sayre, Debbie, Mike Battenfield and Henry, his St Bede's church family, as well as his beloved dog Sadie and wife Evelyn of the home. Leland was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Francis, his two sisters, Anita Vangorden and Veda Woolard, Grandsons William Kyle Sutterfield, Richard Strong and son in law John Houchin.

Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, August 9, 2024, at the St. Bedes Episcopal Church, with Father Lee officiating. The burial will be held at Rose Hill Cemetery in Ardmore, Oklahoma, at 3:00 p.m. Friday, August 9, 2024. The family has requested memorial donations be made in honor of Leland to the Salvation Army. Chapman-Black Funeral Home will be handling the arrangements. Friends and family may visit an online guest book and memorial page for Leland at www.chapman-black.com.