Glenn LaVine Enke age 86, of Orem, died December 20, 1995, peacefully at home next to his companion of 61 years, Ruth, who had cared for him daily for the past four years of his illness.
Born January 8, 1909, Oakland, California to Albert Adolfus Enke and Florence Mercedes LaVine. He was preceded in death by his only brother, Theodore Albert Enke.Glenn is survived by his wife, Ruth Eleanor Graham; sons, Glenn Graham Enke (Janet Forsling), Arthur Harold Enke (Pollyana Ferguson), Alan Albert Enke (Marnie McGrath), and a daughter, Elizabeth Mercedes Aagard (Brooks Aagard); 26 grandchildren, and 23 great-grandchildren. He was married March 10, 1934 in Oakland, California and later joined the LDS Church and sealed in the Salt Lake Temple May 27, 1946.
Glenn graduated from Oakland High School in 1924, from the University of California at Berkeley in Civil Engineering in 1928. He also received the Civil Engineer Degree (C.E.) from Utah State in 1972. He has received international awards from James F. Lincoln Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. He was registered as a Professional Engineer in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Ohio, and as a Civil and Structural Engineer in the state of California.
Glenn began his career in 1928 at the American Bridge Company at Gary, Indiana; later with Giffels & Vallet Architects and Engineers in Detroit. He joined the California Bridge Department in 1931 designing over 40 major fixed and moving bridges. He also designed railroad bridges in Ecuador and Venezuela, and prepared feasibility studies for steel and plywood mills in Argentina and Indonesia. He designed the McKay Building, the Smith Family Living Center, the Erying Science Center and other structures at BYU as well as several LDS Church buildings in Tonga, the eight-stake tabernacle in Ogden, and the Crossroads Mall and Tower in Salt Lake City. He also served with the LDS Church Building Committee and was a Provo Temple ordinance worker.
He was the first to use the process of slip form, continuous concrete pouring during the construction of the Geneva Steel Mill during World War II, when he served as Assistant Chief Engineer. He was with the Morrison-Knudson Company at Boise, Idaho and Utah Construction in Salt Lake City as Design Engineer. He designed an erection method for a high-level bridge over the Canal Zone at Panama, structures for a part of the Bay area BART transit system, and heavy equipment for building Anderson Ranch Dam in Idaho. He also developed stress-strain models for the San Francisco Oakland Bay bridge.
Glenn was invited to join Dr. Harvey Fletcher to organize the College of Engineering at BYU in 1952 and was a professor of civil engineering. He served for eight years as chairman of the Utah State Board of Professional Engineers. He was a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Tau Beta Pi.
Glenn was a stake missionary in Salt Lake City and has served in various offices in the Melchizedek Priesthood including stake clerk, High Priest's group leader, and as a member of the High Council.
At the time of his death, he was a member of the Cherry Hill 9th Ward in Orem, Utah.
Funeral services will be Saturday, December 23, 1995, at 11 a.m. held at the Cherry Hill LDS Ward Chapel, 135 East 2000 South, Orem. Friends may call from 9:45 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. at the church. Interment will take place at Provo City Cemetery. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Berg Mortuary.
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