Blaine W. Glad

Having almost reached his 90th year, and after suffering three strokes and several years of diminished quality of life, Blaine W. Glad slipped quietly across the river to the other side on the morning of July 28, 2024. He was born to Henry Nephi Glad and Mary Hunt, joining siblings Kenneth and Helen and extended family members.

At 17 he lost his father and began working in a nearby grocery store’s produce department to help support his family. Always seeking mental stimulation, he soon enrolled at the University of Utah Medical School, achieving his B.S. degree along with military training, then joined the Army Reserve and proceeded to an M.S. and later a Ph.D. in molecular biology.

In 1964 he married Marilyn K. Odell and went on to medical school, graduating in 1970. After internship and fellowships, the couple moved to California for him to join the faculty at the University of California at Davis. Several years later in Fair Oaks, California, he opened a private practice in internal medicine, specializing in endocrinology. 1987 brought them back to Salt Lake City to open the same practice here. He retired in 1999.

Some of his fondest memories were of hiking and camping with his brother-in-law and other family members in the great outdoors of Utah. He was an avid reader and loved working in his yard, watched by ever present various cats. He was a friend to all, an intelligent, upright and gentle soul. 

He was preceded in death by his parents, siblings and is survived by saddened family members and his devoted wife.

Following his wishes, he was cremated and there was no funeral. He will live on in the hearts and minds of those who knew and loved him. When you walk outdoors in the myriad beauties of the natural world, when you breathe fresh clean air after a rainfall, when you ponder the infinite mysteries of the universal, his spirit will be with you.