The evening of July 1st our friend Bucky Buchanan
called me with a prayer request about a friend of his who was very ill.
Norma Glish, worked at Fort Huachuca as the aircraft dispatcher, records keeper
and secretary of the Intel School (which later became the Combat
Intelligence School) in flight operations while Bucky was there for 11 years in
the early 1970s thru 1982. Bucky
and many friends of Norma and her husband Pete have kept their friendship
alive over all these years. Pete called Bucky with the news that Norma
had Chemotherapy in Tucson for a week and was going to be admitted as an
outpatient at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix on July 2nd for further treatment of a very aggressive form of
leukemia.
According to Pete, the prospects of a favorable outcome from this
type of leukemia were not real good.
When he called me, Bucky asked that I put a note on the 225th
Observer blog asking all of you to pray for healing and peace for Norma, and
peace for Pete. They both know that God is in control and in the middle
of their circumstances, but that also it does not make their situation any less
stressful.
I had written a short note and had sent it off to Bucky for
proofing; in the meantime we had gone camping and had not gotten the revised
note online. Then on July 9th,
Bucky sent me the following: “Gordy,
Some very sad news. Norma Glisch just passed away at 1.10 PHX time today.
NO plans as of yet. Pete (her
husband) called me and Larry Wilkerson to tell us and asked that we pass the
word. Pete will call me once he makes some preparations as to where and
when they may have a ceremony. I called Terry Clark, who also lives here
in Jacksonville, and he is waiting for the obit or anything Pete will tell or
send me and will then put it in the next Mohawker that goes out. So for
now just keep Pete and family in our prayers as we know that is the BEST help.”
