02/21/2026
Dr. Homer Hopson Glascock, II
Dr. Homer Hopson Glascock, II passed away at 9:00 PM on Sunday, February 15, 2026. Homer was born April 10, 1929, in Hannibal Missouri, a tenth generation Glascock in America, the son of Homer Hopson Glascock and Mary Dodd Neale Glascock. He is survived by his wife, Bethel Mae Long Flanagan Glascock, two sons, Dr. Colin F. Glascock, and Thomas D. Glascock, four stepchildren, Cindy Urmston, Laura Walsh, Scott Flanagan, and Kathleen Morgan, eighteen grandchildren, and four great grandchildren. He was predeceased by his first wife, Nancy Louise Senior Glascock, his eldest son Homer H. Glascock III, and his sisters, Patricia Ann Glascock McKee and Virginia F. Glascock Yochum.
Homer grew up in Rensselaer, Missouri in a community that he continued to love and visit all of his life. He attended Big Creek Presbyterian Church there and his Christian faith was of great importance to him. He served as teacher, deacon and elder in a number of churches and was a member of the Medway Village Church for more than 30 years.
Homer was the valedictorian of the Rensselaer High School class of 1947, a class of about a dozen students, and he attended Hannibal LaGrange College. After graduating from The University of Missouri in Columbia, in 1951, he spent two years in the US Army during the Korean War. He returned to MU in 1953 where he met his first wife, Nancy, and married her on June 29, 1958. He was granted an O.M. Steward fellowship, a National Science Foundation Fellowship and the Eisenstein Award before receiving a PhD in Solid State Physics in 1960. He joined The Research Laboratory of General Electric in Schenectady, NY where he spent the next 29 years. There he and Nancy raised their three sons (all becoming eagle scouts) and were presented lifetime PTA memberships for their community service. Nancy died in an auto accident in 1987.
In 1992 Homer married Bethel Mae Long Flanagan, who had been widowed 10 years earlier, and, when he retired in 1994, he moved into her home in Millis, MA where they spent more than 33 happy years together. During his career Homer published more than 50 technical papers and was granted 37 patents. For his work, he received recognition such as the Albert Einstein Prize and the GOSEM Prize Paper.
Homerâs interests were wide-ranging, from poetry and opera to reading, space, dinosaurs, and spelunking. He especially loved the outdoors and was an early 46er, having climbed all 46 Adirondack high peaks. He was well versed in the scriptures and had committed many passages to memory from a young age.
His greatest delight, which he shared with Bethel, was in their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. He loved to share stories with his children and grandchildren about his time growing up on a farm. Homer was, and still is, a wonderful example and role model to all who knew him.
Calling hours will be held on Thursday from 4 - 6 p.m. at the Ginley Crowley Funeral Home, 3 Barber Street in Medway ginleyfuneralhomes.com
Relatives and friends are invited to attend his funeral service on Friday, February 20th at the Medway Village Church, 170 Village Street in Medway at 10 a.m.
Following the services at the Medway Village Church, Homerâs remains will be transferred to Missouri where there will be a graveside 12:00 p.m. noon on Saturday, February 28, 2026, in the Big Creek Cemetery in Rensselaer, MO. Pastor Matt VerMeer will officiate. Arrangements in Missouri have been entrusted to the Smith Funeral Home & Chapel of Hannibal.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to Big Creek Presbyterian Church, 49515 Big Creek Ln., Hannibal, MO 63401 or to Medway Village Church, 170 Village St., Medway, MA 02053.
Online condolences may be made to the family on Homer's memorial page at www.smithfuneralhomeandchapel.com
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