John LeRoy Glover

"I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7. A beloved husband, loving father and grandfather, he passed away on Wednesday, March 4, 2009, at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. He was 82. Visiting at Rabenhorst Funeral Home, 825 Government St., on Friday, March 6, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Visiting resumes at the funeral home on Saturday, March 7, from 9 a.m. until religious service at 11 a.m., conducted by the Right Rev. James Coleman. Born in New Orleans, while his parents were living in Hammond, they shortly moved to Baton Rouge, where he grew up. He attended Dufrocq School and Baton Rouge High until the eleventh grade, when he went off to Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. At age 17, at the beginning of World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, where he served as an Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd class with ground crews for various naval aircraft out of Kearney Mesa Airfield in San Diego and North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado, Calif. He served with VF-41; Combat Aircraft Service Unit 5 and Fleet Air Wing 14 Headquarters Squadron. After the war, he attended Yale University Engineering School, and upon completion worked for Solvay Processing in Detroit, Canada and other cold areas, which prompted him to pursue another career, so he attended Stanford Business School, where he became interested in law. From Stanford, he went on to University of Virginia Law School, followed by Tulane University, where he took the Louisiana Code courses so he could return home and practice in Louisiana. He started with the New Orleans law firm of Monroe&Lemann, eventually becoming partner. While in New Orleans, he met and married Barbara Halliday Rainold. In 1970, they moved, with daughter Teal, to Baton Rouge, where he joined the law firm of Taylor, Porter, Brooks&Phillips, retiring as a partner in 1996. In 1970, their second daughter, Emily, was born. John is survived by his wife of 44 years, Barbara Rainold Glover; daughters, Catherine Teal Glover and Emily Glover Frazier, and son-in-law, John Wylie Frazier; two grandchildren, Wylie James Frazier and Ashley Rainold Frazier; sister, Gay Glover Sheffield, and brother-in-law, Richard Burdick Sheffield; and all his nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by his father, John LeRoy Glover Sr.; stepfather, Carlton Bates; and mother, Eulah Wooley Glover Bates. Honorary pallbearers are John S. Campbell Sr., Raymie Edmonds, John Frazier, Earl Gautreaux, Scott Gibert, Mike Hart, John McDermott, John Page, Richard Sheffield and David Shelby. He was a member of St. James Episcopal Church, where he served on the Vestry, the Day School Board and was chair of the Stewardship Committee. He also served on the board, both as a member and as president, of Episcopal High School, and was a coordinator and first president of the Baton Rouge Episcopal School System. He also co-chaired the Headmaster Search Committee for Episcopal High School. Being an avid outdoorsman, he was a member of the Arcole Hunting Club and a lifetime member of the NRA. He was also a member of Profits Unlimited, the Louisiana Bar Association, the Virginia Bar Association and the Stratford Club of New Orleans. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Hospice of Baton Rouge, 9063 Siegen Lane, Suite A, Baton Rouge, LA 70810,www.hospicebr.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.hospicebr.org">www.hospicebr.org. The family would like to thank the nurses and doctors of the CICU at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and Dr. Terry Rehn for their loving care and support.