Glenn Grover Finkbiner

Glenn was born in Springfield, Missouri and moved to Galveston, Texas at a young age with his family and grew up on the island. He married his high school sweetheart, Sylvia in 1952 and attended Texas A&M University and the University of Houston and entered the United States Army in 1955. Glenn had a very successful 30-year military career, serving in Korea and Vietnam and moving around the world before retiring as a Colonel in 1985 in April Sound, Montgomery, TX, where he has lived for the past 36 years. Up until just the past few years, Glenn could be found swimming miles of laps at the Conroe Recreation Center at 0500 am every morning, before hitting the golf course at April Sound afterwards as well as volunteering at Conroe Regional Hospital. Glenn was also an avid fisherman and artist. He painted in oils, created stain glass hangings and lamps and designed and wrapped custom fishing rods, the famed “Fink Sticks”.

Glenn is survived by his wife, Sylvia Sparks Finkbiner, daughters, Leslie Finkbiner Moore and Susan Finkbiner Grooms, son-in-law Gary F. Grooms, and grandchildren, Ryan Elizabeth, Bryeana Noele, and Austin Glenn Grooms and much-loved dog, Izzy. He is preceded in death by his parents, Glenn C. and Mary Sue Finkbiner of Galveston, TX and brother, Colonel (retired) Terry C. Finkbiner, April Sound, Montgomery, TX.

Visitation/viewing will be at the Metcalf Funeral Home, Conroe, TX on Friday, 17 December 2021 from 1500-1700 pm.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held on Tuesday, January 18, 2021 at April Sound Church, 67-1/2 April Wind Dr S., Montgomery, Texas at 11am with a burial to follow in Galveston at 3pm

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