Glenna Adair Glover

Glenna Adair Glover

October 20, 1945 – February 10, 2025

Our beloved mother, grandmother, cousin, and dear friend, Glenna Adair Glover (Pollard), passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends on February 10, 2025. Glenna embodied elegance, dignity, and grace. Those of us who mourn her will always remember her radiant smile that lit up every room, her sense of humor, and the privilege it was to know such a lovely human being.

Born October 20, 1945, in Anchorage, Alaska, Glenna was the adored only child and daughter of Edwin “Ed” and Ernestine Glover. When Glenna was a young girl, her family moved to Boise and resided on Gray Avenue (now part of Randolph Drive) throughout Glenna’s elementary, junior high, and high school years. Gray Avenue was home to multiple families with children around the same age, and Glenna and her friends from Gray Avenue continued to reunite over the years as the Gray Avenue Girls (“GAGs”). Glenna attended McKinley Grade School, West Jr. High and graduated from Borah High School in 1963. She then attended the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma for two years and graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in business administration. She worked for Bank of America in San Francisco for several years before returning to Idaho, where she lived for the rest of her life, either in Ketchum or Boise. Glenna’s family’s roots run deep in Ketchum/Sun Valley. She was a granddaughter of the Brass family, owners of the Brass Ranch, the property purchased by W. Averell Harriman in the 1930's for the development of the original Sun Valley ski resort. 

After returning to Ketchum, Glenna worked for Bill Benjamin, a local attorney. She later retired to focus on her family business, travel the world, and stay connected with her huge extended family and many close friends. She was especially close to her many cousins (the Heisses, Fenwicks, Garrettsons, and others), her childhood best friends, Brenda Monahan and Kathleen Rockne, her college roommate, Jill Priest, the GAGs, and many others too numerous to name. Through the years, she volunteered at several charities, including the hospice services associated with Sun Valley Hospital. She was also a lifetime member of PEO, enjoying all the friends she met through her activities with that philanthropic group. Single for most of her life until her 60's, to her surprise and delight, she reconnected with a high school classmate, Andy Pollard. After a three-year courtship, they were married in June 2009 and enjoyed nearly nine years of marriage before Andy’s untimely death in 2018. Her marriage to Andy brought her such happiness – not only a great husband but also a lovely new family – her cherished daughters Rachel Lalley and Sarah Geisler, as well as beloved grandchildren Regan Lalley, Koen Lalley and Austin Geisler.

Glenna lived a wonderful life, filled with love, great friends, a loving family and lots of fun and travel, for which she was always deeply grateful. She was beautiful, thoughtful, gracious and elegant in every way, and she will be dearly missed. Glenna was preceded in death by her parents, Ed and Ernestine, and is survived by her family: Rachel and Tim Lalley, their children Regan and Koen, and Sarah Geisler and her son, Austin, as well as her large extended family and countless dear friends. 

Arrangements will be coordinated by the Wood River Chapel. Even though her travels took her to six of the seven continents, Ketchum was always her true home, and to Ketchum she will return for her final journey. Private graveside services will be held there, and she will be buried beside her parents at the Ketchum Cemetery. A Celebration of Life will be planned in Boise at a later date. 

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (www.LLC.org), in memory of Glenna Glover, in the hope that new treatments may be an option for future generations.