glovernet.org A website devoted to the Howard Clarke & Fannie Jones Glover descendents. Remember the family pictures? The family has grown so much that it is difficult to keep up with everyone. Let's not lose touch with our roots!  Published Saturday, September 11, 2010  Coweta's first pediatrician dies at age 101 By Winston Skinner The Times-Herald Dr. Howard Glover, Coweta County's first pediatrician, died Friday morning.  "He had a tremendous love for children," said Clay Hudson, a Newnan attorney and family friend. At 101, Dr. Glover was not only a beloved doctor remembered by patients in a wide range of ages, but he was one of the county's oldest residents. McKoon Funeral Home of Newnan will be announcing funeral arrangements.  Dr. Glover was born Dec. 17, 1908. His father, Howard Clarke Glover, was an Alabama native who became a successful businessman in Newnan and owned a large peach orchard in the county. The doctor's mother was Fannie Virginia Jones, the daughter of a physician and stepdaughter of one of the authors of "Coweta Chronicles," a history of the county. H.C. and Fannie Glover had nine children. Their youngest son, Nathaniel Banks "Nat" Glover, became a pediatrician and practiced with Howard Glover for many years. Thomas Jones Glover was an insurance broker in Newnan and helped start an early forerunner of United Way, and J. Littleton Glover, another brother, was a prominent attorney. Dr. Howard Glover earned his bachelor of arts degree from Mercer University. He received his MD degree in 1934 from the University of Virginia where he was a member of Kappa Alpha and the Phi Beta PI medical society. Dr. Glover originally intended to be a medical missionary. After graduating from medical school, he took a trip to New York during which he was thrown from a car in an accident. Dr. Glover was unconscious for 10 days and had to have surgery. He was partially paralyzed for awhile, was not enough to put a stop to his medical career. After two weeks he was able to go home, and he started interning at several different hospitals, including Henrietta Egleston, a well known pediatric hospital in Atlanta. Soon afterward, he opened his pediatrics practice in Newnan. When he started as a pediatrician, the cost was $2 for an office visit and $5 for a home visit. Dr. Glover's skills as a physician were known throughout the region. A Newnan hero was born in the City of Homes because of Dr. Glover. When Nancy Pollard was expecting her second child in 1939, her family lived in a two-room apartment close to the Glover pediatric offices on Brown Street. They came to live in Newnan the previous year because her son, Travis, had health problems that required regular medical care from Dr. Howard Glover. While the Pollards were living in Newnan, Stephen Pollard was born on Sept. 6, 1939. A couple of years later, Nancy Pollard and her husband got a divorce. She remarried and her second son, then known as Stephen Pless, received the Medal of Honor for bravery during the Vietnam War. Howard Glover was known not only for his care of the children who came to his office with typical colds and rashes but for his skills as a surgeon -- particularly in removing tonsils. He performed that surgery in his office until 1950. Renee Carroll, a Newnan resident who grew up in Luthersville, remembered that her mother had great confidence in Dr. Glover and took her and her sister to him. Like many adults who saw Dr. Glover years ago, she remembered him drawing a bird on her hand at the close of office visits. In a 2008 interview, the pediatrician said he always saw his practice as a way of serving others. "I decided I could be a missionary at home," he concluded. During his years as a pediatrician, Dr. Glover started collecting pictures of the children he helped. Eventually, they were collected into collages. In some cases, Dr. Glover served two or three generations of a single family before he retired at 85. Jeffrey Glover, his grandson, recalled hunting, fishing and golf with Dr. Glover. For most of his life, Dr. Glover loved to golf. He made his first hole in one at 85 -- and followed that accomplishment with at least three more. Dr. Glover maintained several longtime friendships. He and Frank Hudson, Clay Hudson's father, had a friendship that extended into a connection between Clay Hudson and Dr. Glover and his wife, Margaret. Dr. Glover also had a close friendship with longtime Newnan businessman Harold Barron, who died earlier this year. Barron's daughter, Sandra, married John Trapnell Glover, Dr. Glover's son. Their son, Jeffrey Glover, reflected that his grandfathers were "fixtures in Newnan in their very unique and different ways." He knew Dr. Glover as "Pop," and recalled he was "always the more soft-spoken" as compared to loquacious Harold Barron. Jeffrey Barron, who is an archaeologist with Georgia State University, as a boy watched nature specials on public television with Dr. Glover. "I have fond memories of doing that," he said. He also remembered going to the hospital with his grandfather. He still recalls "the way he interacted with people -- and the way the people respected him." "He never said a bad word about anybody," Clay Hudson said. "Kind and compassionate" were words that came to her mind as she recalled the friend and doctor she has known all her life. The friendship between Dr. Glover and Frank Hudson "went back to their childhood," Clay Hudson recalled. Noon Hudson, Frank's father, and H.C. Glover were friends, and H.C. Glover was killed in an automobile accident coming back from a fishing trip with Noon Hudson. "They lived around the corner from each other. They played together," Clay Hudson said -- noting that her father and Howard Glover came "from two big families." Dr. Glover married Margaret Trapnell in 1939, and she survives him. They had a daughter and three sons. Several grandchildren also survive. Jeffrey Glover knew his grandfather's love, but also was one of the many beneficiaries of his medical skill. "He took out my tonsils, too," he said.