Glen Edward Smith

Glen was born in Leachville, Arkansas on April 16th, 1929. He graduated from High School and shortly after was drafted into the Army where he served our country in the Korean War.

Glen Met his future wife Marilyn while he was in electrical school in Kansas City Missouri. They met in November of 1953 and were married just a few months later January 23rd, 1954. Glen, Marilyn and their five children moved from their small bungalow house in Arkansas to Waco and then to Austin where he has lived for the past 52 years.

When Glen moved to Austin, he was named the Retail systems manager for NCR. He continued that for several years until he decided to branch out on his own. In 1974 Glen followed his dream and founded Cash Register Sales and Service (CRS). He started the company in his garage and built it to be a multimillion-dollar company. He and his wife Marilyn traveled all over the world with all the trips he would win from being one of the largest selling offices. He spoke a lot about the large accounts that he would land when he was first starting up the business and how those accounts changed his life. More importantly he would talk about the employees and customers and the relationships that he had that impacted his life. He was a legend in the Cash Register business.

Glen was such a character and loved to tell stories to others. As he aged all the care givers and others that would come into the house to see him would get the full story of how he met his wife who he was married to for 64 years and so many wonderful childhood stories as well as all the family pictures hanging on the walls. We will forever miss hearing all his most precious stories.

Glen was an avid gardener he loved to plant new trees, and shrubs and his favorite place to shop was the Lowes by his house. He visited there so often that he became friends with a few of the employees there. They still talk about all the times he came in and wanted the bargain isle with the opened bags of mulch, or the trees that were discounted and he would buy the whole bunch of them. If he did not have room for them, he would give them away to someone else that he thought would cherish them as he did.

Glen is proceeded in death by his Parents, HV Smith, and Gladys Smith, his Wife Marilyn Smith, and Son Jeff Smith. He is survived by his Sister Susan Smith of St Louis, Denise Smith and husband Roy of Corpus Christi, and Butch Smith and wife Judy of Atlanta. Son’s David Smith, Brian Smith and wife Helen, Glen Smith Jr. and wife Bobi, and his daughter Elizabeth Gomez and husband John. Grandchildren David Smith, Kristen Montgomery, Erin Smith, Hannah Smith, Holly Smith, Blake Smith, Travis Smith, Jennifer Millian and husband Alex, Amanda Bess and Husband Scott, Heather Mitchell and husband Juan, Megan Heimbuch and husband Tommy, and Victoria Gomez and fiancé Skylar along with 10 Great Grand Children.

Glen’s Family would like to thank everyone who touched his life and worked for/with him as well as touching our lives. All the past employees of CRS who were truly family to him, as well as Maria and Deatrice who were care givers to him and a special thank you Nan and Kat his neighbor who would watch movies and share their lives with him.

A visitation for Glen will be held Monday, June 20, 2022 at 11:00 a.m., with the funeral service immediately following at 12:00 p.m. in the chapel at Cook-Walden/Capital Parks Funeral Home in Pflugerville. Following the service, he will be laid to rest at Cook-Walden/Capital Parks Cemetery.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.cookwaldencapitalparks.com for Glen's family.