The Reverend Deacon Episcopal Church George S. Glander, son of George and Marie Glander, was born 27 Jun 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He served in the South Pacific with the Army Transportation Corp. during World War II. He was commissioned as a Captain in the Episcopal Church Army in October, 1952. He worked with the St. Francis Boys Home in Kansas, inner-city youth in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Wayside Cathedral which was a mobile chapel that traveled through rural Ohio and surrounding areas. He served for six years in Alaska working with the Native Americans in villages near the arctic circle. He served for five years on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota and then for five years at Cass Lake Episcopal Church Camp and at mission churches in the surrounding area in Minnesota. In 1968 he moved to Mahtomedi and worked for ten years as a hospital administrator, and he remained active in his work with the church. He joined the staff at St. John in the Wilderness in 1979. He was ordained as a Deacon in the Episcopal Church in June, 1985, and served at St. John in the Wilderness in White Bear Lake until his retirement in 2004. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Arlene Chatterton Glander; three sons, Edward Paul, George III, and Karl; and four grandchildren, Ian, Elizabeth, Sabrina, and Sarah. He is preceded in death by his brother James and sister Betty Lou, and is survived by his brothers Richard and Donald. He always enjoyed family gatherings involving his many cousins and nieces and nephews.