Glen born on prairies of Canada, Saskatchewn, came to live with his aunt Maida Stewart Bartels and Uncle Fred 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 famiies that homesteaded there. 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 Gordon Wolseley Stewart had his homesteaded.
Riceton-Bechard Families
177 pgs, search for Stewart.
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, devastated most of Altadena.
Luckily The Meadows survived - we lived on Aralia St.
Click on image to zoom, note the 2 golden arrows to JPL and Aralia.
CalFire source.
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.