Blair resident Glen W. Whitney, 91, formerly of Lexington, Mo., died Oct. 27, 2004, at Memorial Community Hospital in Blair following a lengthy illness.

Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 30, at Walker-Nadler Funeral Home in Lexington. Visitation will be Friday, Oct. 29, with the family receiving friends from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Glen Wellman Whitney was born June 19, 1913, in Adair County, Mo., near Connelsville, to Karl H. and Iva (Shumate) Whitney. The family moved to Kirksville, Mo., when he was a small child. He graduated from the Kirksville High School in 1930.

Mr. Whitney attended Northeast Missouri State Teacher’s College in Kirksville, graduating in 1934 with a bachelor of science degree in chemistry and education. In 1948, he received a master’s degree in education from the University of Missouri at Columbia. Mr. Whitney was a teacher from 1934 until 1956. At that time, he became a personnel manager for Mattingly Bros. Stores, a chain of variety stores located in Missouri, until his retirement in 1977.

On June 20, 1936, he married Ruth Mary Jobson in Marceline, Mo. The Whitneys lived in Poplar Bluffs and St. Louis, Mo., before moving to Lexington in 1943, where they lived for almost 60 years.

Mr. Whitney was a member of the United Methodist Church of Lexington, was a past member of the Rotary Club and the Kiwanis Club. He served as a naval officer in World War II, from 1944 until his honorable discharge in 1946, and was stationed in Guam, Okinawa, and Japan.

His interests included gardening, fishing and hunting. He was an avid history reader.

He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Jane A. and Hugh W. Hunt of Blair; son and daughter-in-law, Dr. Arthur Karl and Martha Whitney of Palo Alto, Calif.; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; sister-in-law and husband, Grayce and Robert Pudden of Manhattan, Kan.; and a nephew, Larry Whitney of Kirksville.

Memorials are suggested to the United Methodist Church, South Highway 13, Lexington, MO 64067.