Glenn B Daughton

Cocoa Beach

Retired Air Force Colonel Glenn B. Daughton died February 23, 2012 at the age of 96. He was born in Sistersville, W. Virginia to William and Eva (Martin) Daughton. After High School, he attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology where he was enrolled in the engineering program and was active in R.O.T.C. In 1937 he graduated as an electrical engineer. After college he worked with the Union Switch and Signal Co. as a railway signaling engineer and then went on active duty with the Army Signal Corps in 1940. He married Jean E. McLeod in December, 1941, in Atlanta, Georgia.

All during World War II, Col. Daughton was involved in radar and communications. He served in Panama and in the China-Burma-India Theatre as battalion commander of the Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion. In 1945 Col. Daughton was stationed in China as an advisor to the Chinese Air Force Communications School at Chengtu.

Upon his return to the States he took graduate electrical training at the University of Illinois for two years, receiving his master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1949. He then served for three years as an Air Force instructor at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, attended the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama and then went to Sandia Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he was associated with the training program for atomic weapons. Later stationed at Cooke Air Force Base in California he served as the acting Missile Wing Commander and was associated with the training program for the crews manning the Atlas and Thor missiles.

He then served as the Commanding Officer of the New Boston, (Manchester), NH and New Jersey - satellite tracking stations.

Col. Daughton retired from the Air Force in 1967 after lastly being posted at Patrick Air Force Base and resided for the remainder of his life in Cocoa Beach, Florida. After his military career he worked for GE at Cape Canaveral and was involved in the Saturn and Apollo rocket programs. His hobby as an amateur radio operator was practiced from his high school years and into his retirement. He was very interested in family history and served as president and treasurer of the Brevard County Genealogical Society. He was fluent in Spanish and travelled extensively, particularly in Mexico and Central America where his interest in ancient cultures took him to Aztec, Toltec, and Mayan sites.

He was pre-deceased by his parents, a brother, and his wife of 50 years. He is survived by a dear friend, sister-in-law, and a niece and nephew.

Calling hours are 11AM-2PM followed by a funeral service beginning at 2PM, Sunday March 4, 2012 at Wylie-Baxley Funeral Home, 1360 North Courtenay Parkway, Merritt Island, FL 32953. Phone 321-452-6565. Burial will take place at Florida Memorial Gardens, 5950 S. Highway 1, Cocoa, FL.

Arrangements under the direction of Wylie-Baxley Funeral Home, Merritt Island, FL.