Martha Glass :
CLASS OF 1972
Mt. Pleasant High SchoolClass of 1972
San jose, CA
August Boeger Junior High SchoolClass of 1968
San jose, CA
Robert Sanders Elementary SchoolClass of 1966
San jose, CA
Fred Marten Elementary SchoolClass of 1961
San jose, CA
Mount Pleasant Elementary SchoolClass of 1960
San jose, CA
Martha's Story
WOW! If I'd known anything of what my life was going to be after high school...went to Europe right after graduation, rode the trains in England and on the Continent- W. Europe. Visited East Berlin through Checkpoint Charlie...took photos of the young men called Sharpshooters who were patrolling the top of "the Wall"..backpacked and more trains! ...came back to San Jose just in time to start SJ State...but the wanderlust in my heart had not been satisfied...went back several more times...worked at so many things (never drove truck or built a house...yet),and continued my college/University education for 12 years in various subjects...eventually ended up at UCD where my adventure took a turn...deaths, marriage, births, divorce,and growing up with the younger 3 kids (6 in all)!
In short, motherhood is the most rewarding thing I could ever do.
Now, it's time I paid tribute to my big brother, Karl Glass.
He was the 3rd of 8 kids, I was 4th, just 20 months younger. He was named after our dad, Karl, and was known to all his family and many close friends as "Butch" his whole life.
He was the greatest brother anyone could ever have. He was my best friend and closest sibling. When we were very small, he would awaken ONLY me, early on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons with him, covering me with a blanket after setting me on the sofa next to him. He made me walk with him to the Barry's R...Expand for more
anch up on the hill after breakfast...miles and miles...across pastures and over plowed fields, always holding the barbed-wire fences apart in the middle so that I could safely crawl through without getting cut. Some of the fences were electric too. I often became parched, so he would talk me all the way there. As soon as we arrived, after being announced by the many peacocks and dogs, Gloria, Warren's mom, would unlock the wooden chest of "goodies" and we'd eat and drink our fill.
Butch would take me up the trail to Joaquin Murietta's hideout at Alum Rock Park, dragging me into the back of the cave to once again gaze upon the old wooden table and chair that had been left there...I never knew if they were authentic, just took my big brother at his word!
It's now April, and this is Butch's birthday month. As a little girl, I couldn't remember if his birthday was the 23rd or 25th, so each year I'd ask him and each year he'd tell me the same thing...he'd say it was "Juvember forty eleventh"!
He loved fishing more than anything else in the whole wide world! He went to Alaska in the mid 80's to work on a fishing boat, but that job was hard to get so he took whatever he could find...which was on an island as a choker-setter in the Logging Industry. He told me that he knew I'd been praying for him because 3 times he should have been killed, but was miraculously spared, while on that job!
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