Harold Glen Warden

Harold Glen Warden, 92, of Marietta, passed away on Sunday (January 24, 2010) at Heartland of Marietta.

He was born September 3, 1917 at Marietta, OH, to Herbert and Pearl Miller Warden. He spent his life in Marietta and was a 1937 graduate of Marietta High School. He had been employed by and was proprietor of the New System Bakery until his retirement in 1982. He had been a deacon and member of the First Baptist Church and the Adult Fellowship class. He had been active in Cub Scouts. He married Mary Louise Skipton on October 5, 1940.

He is survived by three sisters, Mildred Schario, Elizabeth Warden both of Marietta and Winifred Flowers of Williamstown, WV; one brother, Robert Warden of Marietta; one son, Paul Stephen Warden of Mission, Texas; one daughter, Beverly Ann Warden and her partner Carol Ann Paquette of Durham, North Carolina; two grandsons. Christopher Warden and his wife, DeAnna of Michigan and Michael Paquette of Dumfries, VA, and one granddaughter, Cynthia Swisher and her husband, Jamie, of Michigan. He is also survived by four great-grandchildren, Rachael, Alex, and Cameron of Michigan and Elizabeth of Buxton, Maine as well as numerous nephews and nieces.

He was preceded in death by his wife Mary Louise Warden on December 29, 2009; his parents; two sisters Marie Offenberger and Catherine Warden; five brothers, Wilbur, Paul, Ralph, Corbett, and Lowell Warden; and a daughter-in-law, Gilda Schenkel Warden.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday (January 27th) at 10:30 am at McClure-Schafer-Lankford Funeral Home with Reverend David Bilyeu officiating.  Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery.  Friends may call at the funeral home after 2:00 on Tuesday.