Richard M. Glover

Richard Mortimer Glover, M.D., who delivered many of the current citizens of Newton during more than four decades as a family physician, died January 26, 2008. He was 86.
Dr. Glover was born February 28, 1921 in Newton to Harold Mortimer Glover, M.D., and Marguerite Axtell Glover. He attended Newton schools and graduated from Newton High School in 1939.
After attending Dartmouth College, he graduated from Colorado College in 1943 witha B.S. degree in biology.
On March 29, 1944, he married Elizabeth Royce Hollingsworth of Denver. He served his country as a member of a United States Army field artillery unit from 1943-1946. Following his military service, he enrolled at Denver University, receiving a Master of Physiology degree in 1947.
In 1953, Dr. Glover received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Univeristy of Kansas School of Medicine. He served a one-year internship in general practice at St. Joseph's Hospital before establishing a family medicine practice at Axtell Clinic in Newton that continued until his retirement in 1996.
He was the third of four generations of the Axtell family to serve Newton as physicians, following in the footsteps of his grandparents, Drs. John T. and Lucena Chase Axtell, and his father.
Dr. Glover especially loved the outdoors and was an avid hunter and fisherman. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Nu Sigma Nu medical fraternity, board member of the Kansas Foundation for Medical Care, Harvey County Medical Society, Kansas Medical Society, American Medical Association, Kansas Health Foundation, St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Newton Rotary Club and the Elks Club.
Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Betty; three daughters, Nancy and Dr. Charles Craig of Newton, Meg and Bruce Henderson fo Dallas and Mary and Dr. Rick Beck of Newton; two sons, Dr. Rick and Rochelle Glover of Newton and Jim and Stephanie Glover of Oklahoma City; 14 grandchildren and four great-granchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents and his sisters, Lucena Glover Sills and Patricia Glover Knupp. The family has established memorials with the Newton Medical Center and St. Matthew's Episcopal Church of Newton.