Genealogie Wylie » Glenn Allen Kittrell K USS FbPqnOb 4 (1964-2014)

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1. Web page at:, via http://blog.al.com/live/2014/03/a_fighte..., 9 maart 2014

   
   
   Glenn Kittrell, who loved police work and being on the water, died Feb. 16, 2014, after a long battle with cancer. Here he's seen with a dolphin on a trip to Mexico. (Courtesy Kittrell family)
   
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   On the last day of his life, Glenn Kittrell finally admitted that he couldn’t beat the illness he had battled for more than seven years. Paralyzed from the neck down and lying in a hospital bed in his living room, he told his father, “I know it’s bigger than I can handle.”
   
   When he went to sleep that night, he never woke up.
   
   Until that day, Feb. 16, Glenn had been determined to live, even after being diagnosed in 2007 with chordoma, a rare form of cancer that occurs in the bones of the skull and spine and is notoriously difficult to treat.
   
   Glenn, the third of four boys in his family, grew up in Mobile, where he attended Evangel Christian School. Even as a child, he was an incredibly hard worker, said his father, Mac Kittrell, who recalled that Glenn never missed a day of school from kindergarten through 12th grade.
   
   “When he was a kid and the garbage can filled up, he was already taking it out before you could ask him,” said Mac. “When it was time to cut the grass, he was already out there doing it. That was his personality. He had a work ethic I’ve seen in very few people.”
   
   In fact, he said, in the week before Glenn died, he was taking calls from his employees. “He was still working,” he said.
   
   In college, Glenn worked two jobs to pay his way at the University of Mobile, where he studied business, his father said. He worked at his father’s Kittrell Acoustics in Mobile, and with his oldest friend, Johnny McWilliams, at the Sign and Tint Shop, where he became an expert at tinting windows.
   
   “It was a blessing to have someone like him, who was better than a brother,” said Johnny. “I loved him, and I know he loved me.”
   
   ‘A big heart’
   
   When Mac moved to South Baldwin County to take over Gulf Shores Builders Supply, Glenn followed him into the business. But he harbored a desire to become a police officer. He started as a volunteer reserve officer, then went to the Southwest Alabama Police Academy and worked part-time for the Orange Beach and then Gulf Shores police departments.
   
   “I kept him from being a full-time policeman because I needed him in the business,” Mac said. “He absolutely loved it.” Glenn donated his police salary to Youth-Reach Gulf Coast, a Summerdale-based program for troubled teens, Mac said.
   
   If there was anything he loved as much as police work, his dad said, it was being on the water.
   
   Mac and his wife, Sherry, who live on Wolf Bay in Elberta, can wake up in the morning and watch dolphins frolicking from their screened porch. When they first moved in, he said, Glenn would often come over to the house, where he kept his boat, and start it up in the middle of the night. He might be gone for hours, just cruising around under the stars—then he’d wake up the next morning and go to work.
   
   Melody Kittrell met Glenn in the early 1990s, and they married in 1994. “He was always working,” she said. “He would leave at 6:30 a.m. and not get home until 10 or 11 at night.”
   
   The couple divorced in 2002, but reunited in 2011, after Glenn was well into his battle with chordoma. Melody said that whenever she would date other people, “I would always compare them to Glenn and kick them to the curb.” They remarried in 2012.
   
   “He had a big heart,” she said. “Things that were important to him were little things about me, like the way I cried during movies, or even during certain sad commercials.”
   
   ‘He wanted to live’
   
   Melody, Mac and Glenn’s mother, Verna Roberts, were his primary caregivers during his last weeks. “He never complained to anybody,” Mac said. “He wanted to live real bad.”
   
   In 2007, both Glenn and his father were having neck pain. Glenn accompanied Mac to the Mayo Clinic. Mac's problem turned out to be a cyst. Because he’d also been having severe migraines, Glenn asked his father’s doctor to take a look at him. That’s when Glenn's malignant tumor was discovered.
   
   Though his initial internet research revealed that people with chordoma typically only survived for seven years, Glenn truly thought he could beat the disease. His dad took him to Boston for proton radiation therapy that left him partially paralyzed on one side. And toward the end, he had stem cell treatments in Gulf Shores and in Bogota, Colombia, in a desperate attempt to survive.
   
   In 2010, he had to quit his police work because of the worsening paralysis. “To the end, he’d tell people at work, ‘I’m coming back,’” his father said.
   
   A fall in 2011 started an accelerating set of medical complications that included necrotizing fasciitis, or flesh-eating bacteria, that nearly killed him. He surprised everyone, though, and recovered, although his right leg had to be amputated.
   
   As the cancer progressed, he became completely paralyzed. Still, he never lost his sense of humor. When his friend Johnny visited him the day before he died, he asked Glenn if he had any plans for his upcoming 50th birthday. “He said, ‘I think I’ll just stay here, unless you want to go snow-skiing,’" Johnny said. "He was a character.”
   
   Glenn had two sons, Aaron and Luke. His oldest son, Aaron, felt closer to his father than to anyone else. “When we were together, we would say things we couldn’t say to other people,” he said.
   
   Johnny McWilliams is convinced that Glenn lived as long as he did for one reason: his love for his sons. “He was tenacious. He never gave up because he loved his sons so much.”
   
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2. US Search, Records, 1 januari 2010

   3. Glenn Kittrell <http://www.ussearch.com/=001402970780>Glenn A KittrellGlenn Alan KittrellMore Aliases
   44Edwards, MSVicksburg, MSDorothy F KittrellGlenn A KittrellKim Rozier Kittrell

3. Obituaries, 8 maart 2014

   Glenn Allen Kittrell
   
   
   Posted: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:27 pm
   
   
   
   
   Glenn Allen Kittrell, a native of Mobile and resident of Gulf Shores, died Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014.
   
   Born on Feb. 20, 1964, Glenn graduated high school from Evangel Christian in 1982, then Mobile College in 1986 with a degree in business.
   
   
   
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   He moved to Gulf Shores in the early ‘90s and began his career at Gulf Shores Builders Supply.
   
   In 1997, Glenn graduated from the Southwest Alabama Police Academy, where he pursued his part-time career in law enforcement, working with both the Orange Beach and Gulf Shores police departments.
   
   He considered this to be his “fun” job and would often say, “I don’t know why they pay me to do what I love.” He truly loved being a police officer.
   
   Glenn loved the outdoors and enjoyed surfing, sailing, scuba-diving and boating.
   
   He will be truly missed, as he was a great son, father, husband, brother, uncle, friend and so much more.
   
   He is survived by his wife, Melody K. Kittrell; sons, Aaron and Luke; father, Mac (Sherry) Kittrell; mother, Verna Kittrell Roberts; and brothers, Phillip (Tarrah), Danny (Theresa) and Mark. Glenn also leaves behind many other relatives and friends.
   
   He fought a courageous battle for the past seven years, finally passing peacefully in his sleep, just four days shy of his 50th birthday.
   
   Viewing will take place on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, from 6 to 8 p.m., at Pine Rest Funeral Home in Foley.
   
   The funeral service will be held at Gulf Shores United Methodist Church on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, at 10 a.m., with interment to follow at Pine Rest Memorial Park.
   
   Glenn was a devout Christian who had put his faith in the Lord.
   
   In lieu of flowers, at Glenn’s request, donations may be made to the Chorodoma Foundation, P.O. Box 2127, Durham, NC 27702.
   
   Arrangements by Pine Rest Funeral Home, Foley.

Historische gebeurtenissen

• Geboortedag 20 februari 1964
• Trouwdag 19 juni 2007
• Dag van overlijden 16 februari 2014

Dezelfde geboorte/sterftedag

• Ook geboren op 20 februari
• Ook overleden op 16 februari

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