Come to the Dinner Meeting tomorrow night and hear Randal Hankla tell of the Battle of Brandywine - a battle that inspired many a painter too, such as:

Here are just a few of the artist who have sketched, painted, and penciled images of the Battle of Brandywine.  Some such as present-day artist, Don Troini were many years later.  Some were actually in the Battle, such as the English officer, Lord Cantelupe.  Others were done during a time when those who took part in the Battle were still alive.

Come tomorrow to Spring Creek BBQ in Missouri City on Hwy 6 to hear Randal bring the Battle alive.

Don Troini

Washington and Lafayette at Brandywine

 by Junius Brutis Stearns                                                 Howard Pyle

             

Lord Cantelupe, officer of the Coldstream Guards     American troops by Frederick Coffay Yohn

   

pictures needed

 Need any picture taken at a Chapter event or meeting for possible use in Newsletters.

Coming up in the Winter 2026 Issue of the SAR Magazine

 In the coming Issue on page 42 is a short paragraph about a past Alexander Hodge Chapter meeting and the awarding of the Martha Washington medal to Sandy Barber.

Also on page 53, Micheal and Gerald Bishop along with Douglas Thorp are listed as new members in Texas.

Obit for Thurman Dee Glenn

 Thurman Dee Glenn was born May 23, 1931 to Walter and Nettie Glenn in Hackett, Arkansas in the family farmhouse and was one of four siblings. He attended Hackett High School and went on to graduate from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville where he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration.

He served in the United States Air Force from 1952 through 1962 as a munitions officer. Working in the gas and oil industries he and his family spent 14 years in Tulsa, Oklahoma, moving to Dallas in 1970. 

After Joy’s passing in 1987, he remarried and survived his wife Donna Lucille Glenn of 32 years. He retired from Sun Oil (Sunoco) in 1989 and moved to Hide Away, Texas, near Tyler, where he and Donna lived a very active life square dancing, golfing and serving in the music ministry of their church. Thurman was a loving and devoted father and husband.

After family and faith, the love of Thurman’s life was his meticulous pursuit of his family’s genealogy which dates back to Robert the Bruce. He would spend hours every day at his computer and literally went through hundreds of reams of paper, printing out and keeping notebooks of his research. With the help of his oldest son Randal, he was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution in 2025, and post passing, his family plans to use his research to get him posthumously named a Mayflower Descendant. 

In the last years of his life, he also published a “Storyworth” Volume of prominent personal stories from his earlier days In addition to his wives, Thurman is also preceded in death by his son Bradford, brothers Clarence & Ervin Glenn, sister Pauline Glenn Stein and granddaughter Hannah Joy Glenn. 

Thurman is survived by his son Randal & wife Lisa; his daughter Debbie Arledge and husband Jeff, and youngest son Jeffrey Glenn and wife Stacey. He is further survived by Stepson Dennis Wilson, and step- daughters Denis Dale and Deb Jenson, Sister-in-law Janie Basinger, nieces Bobbie Simchah Bar-David, Susan Byrum, Ginger Wells and Amy Plunkett, Leisa Moore, Sheri Hester, and Cathy Ford. He is also survived by a multitude of grandchildren, great grandchildren, great nieces and nephews, all of whom he loved very much and dearly enjoyed.

July Newsletter has been revised into largely a 250th themed Edition.

 Will publish any pictures that come in from the Liberty Tree Dedication and from the July 11th event at George Library in a future Newsletter.  

I leave for the National SAR Congress in North Carolina on the 9th.  I will return on 16th.