MARGARET M GLANCY

Margaret M. Glancy, age 99, of Pine Knot, passed away Monday, June 14, 2010, at the McCreary Health and Rehab Center in Pine Knot.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 1:00 p.m. at the Bethel Baptist Church with Rev. Harold Sexton officiating. Burial will be at the Bethel Cemetery. The family will receive friends Friday from 11 a.m. until funeral service time at the church.

Mrs. Glancy was born May 4, 1911, in Whitley County, Kentucky, to the late Edward Madison and Nellie Ball Manning. Besides her parents, she is preceded in death by her second husband Harry Glancy, three brothers Lewis E. Manning, Maynard A. Manning, and Virgil S. Manning, a sister Patsy Manning, and a sister-in-law Eleanor Manning.

Surviving family include a sister Gloria (and Orville) Perkins of Pine Knot, a sister-in-law Asia Manning of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, four nieces Sandra (and Jim) Kundla of Pennsylvania, Debbie (and Randy) Sloppy of Pennsylvania, Juanita Stolt of Ohio and Wanda (and Frank)Back of Ohio, two nephews Jerry (and Kay) Manning of Mississippi and Brent (and Delby) Manning of North Carolina, and many great nieces and nephews and great great nieces and nephews.

During World War II, Margaret worked for Lockheed Corporation in California as a "Rosie the Riveter" making parts for airplanes. During the war women took on male dominated trades doing tireless assembly line work aiding the American war effort.

On July 30, 1945, the Flagship USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea and sank in 12 minutes. Her first husband Jerome Newman was one of 880 out of 1,197 men that either went down with the ship or perished in the sea while waiting for rescue.

Margaret later married Harry Glancy. She worked at Autolite Industries in Evendale, Ohio for many years. She and Mr. Glancy owned race horses and a pool hall in Lockland, Hamilton County, Ohio. In 1972, she moved back to the Bethel community of McCreary County, KY. Mrs. Glancy was the oldest member of the Bethel Baptist Church. In 2007 she entered into the McCreary Health and Rehabalitation Center in Pine Knot. She was known for being a good cook. She will be missed.