Glen, born on prairies of Canada, Saskatchewn, came to live with his aunt Maida Stewart Bartels and Uncle Fred Bartels and discovered surfing at Santa Cruz while in high school at Los Altos High.
Glen's sister Jeannie, Maida Jean Kellgren, typed up the memoirs of their Grandfather, Gordon Wolseley Stewart (1885-1978); the txt-version of the family tree Descendants of Colonel John Stewart (1844-1894), text file, print in landscape mode and makes sense;
Ties That Bind
1122 pgs pdf, is an online story of Saskatchewan and families that homesteaded there published 1984. You can download the file, then search for Stewart. The doc is courtesy of Hamlet of Gray History. The section on Bechard
describes the founding of Bechard, where Grandfather Stewart had his homestead.
Riceton-Bechard Families
177 pgs, search for Stewart. Summer 2019 our RdTrip across Canada let us explore explore Elphinstone St., Regina; & Bechard
Glen and Kris Stewart were married 26 March 1975 and started the process of getting his Green Card so he could live and work permanently in the USA.
Kris earned her Masters in Computer Science from San Diego State University in 1979 and got her dream job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. We rented a nice little home in The Meadows of Altadena, directly across the Arroyo Seco from JPL. FYI, the Arroyo Seco is also the home of the Rose Bowl.
EatonFire2025, wildfire devastated most of Altadena, and a good part of L.A. .
Luckily The Meadows survived - we lived at 4283 Aralia St.
Click on image for bigger, note the 2 golden arrows to JPL and 4283 Aralia.
CalFire live source; enter 4283 Aralia Road, Altadena & find JPL, so close to The Meadows, The Rose Bowl, just south within the Arroyo Seco.
Glen ran into an old Verdugo Jr High buddy who suggested he work with Ken Ross on Ken's project to resurrect the Bolton House. As Glen read and practiced his skills, he found his career in the style of Greene and Greene pdf craftsmen workworking and construction, early 1900's Pasadena.
I think these three articles help highlight Glen's professional career.
