Mr. Walter Glenn Brackin

A service to celebrate the life of Walter Glenn Brackin will be held at noon on Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church with the Rev. Tony Meetze will officiating. Prior to the service, the family will receive friends at 11 o’clock in the Good Shepherd room of the church. Serving as pallbearers will be his nine grandsons. Burial will be on Thursday, September 14, 2023, at 1 o’clock, at Old Stone Church in Clemson, SC. Shives Funeral Home, Trenholm Road Chapel, is assisting the family. Mr. Brackin died on Thursday, September 7, 2023. He was born in Birmingham, AL, on December 20, 1925, the son of the late Thomas Beachamp and Suzanne Dell Morris Brackin. He was named after his grandfather, State Senator Walter Acree and his uncle, Glenn Morris who died in World War I. As a boy, Glenn enjoyed swimming, fishing, hunting and camping. He would later own a Model T Ford sedan. Glenn played varsity baseball in seventh grade until the team was disbanded his eleventh-grade year due to war. Following his brother Tom, Glenn enlisted in the U.S. Navy where he was the first to use the Link Flight trainer, now in the Smithsonian. After being honorably discharged, Glenn took a job at Western Electric as an installer of telephone equipment. On November 3, 1947, Glenn married Laney Stokes in Atlanta, GA, they were married sixty-two years before her death in 2008. Laney and Glenn lived in several states while he worked for Western Electric, finally returning to South Carolina to raise their four children. He was an active father teaching his children to swim, fish, go cart, water ski, and drive, activities that he later enjoyed with his grandsons. He was a devoted Clemson Tiger fan and also took his family on many travels, always plotted thoroughly with his atlas. Glenn was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church where he enjoyed the sermons and his friendship with Pastor Tony. Glenn was preceded in death by his wife, Laney, their son, Glenn, Jr, his brothers, Tom (Dot) and Kenneth, sister, Anne Woods, and son-in-law, Danny Ard. He also lost his beloved dog, Gussie who appeared on the back step the night Laney died. For sixteen years they were inseparable. He leaves behind daughters, Carol Ard, Peggy (Randy) Hope and Brenda (Greg) Edens, and daughter-in-law, Christa Brackin; nine grandchildren, Glenn, III, Andrew, and Cal (Morgan) Brackin, Kevin (Allison), Bryan Ard, Randy, III and Lee (Katie) Hope, Alex (Rachel), and Matt Edens; as well as his four great-grandchildren, Jackson Ard, Emma, and Parker Hope, Zander Edens and Brooks Brackin. The family extends special thanks and deep appreciation to special friends that kept Daddy going: Mr. Tony, Miss Sara, Mr. Greg, Mr. Grady, Mr. Malone, Mike Griffith Mike Frick and Bob Johnson. Memorials may be made to St Paul’s Lutheran Church, 1715 Bull Street Columbia, SC 29201.

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Mr. Walter Glenn Brackin

December 20, 1925 - September 7, 2023