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October 25, 2020
I met Glenn and Sue in 1983 when I started dating my future husband, David Pierfy. Dave and Glenn met in 1972 when both started teaching at Rider College (now University.) Glenn always impressed me as being very intelligent, curious, caring and had a great sense of humor.  When I picture him in my mind, it is with that devilish grin.  I cherish the time Dave and I spent with Glenn and Sue over the years.  Their mutual adoration and devotion was so evident.  We got together for dinners, movies, theater shows, local festivals and tennis on Sunday nights.  We spent many a New Years Eve together celebrating the start to another year.  They were included in many of our family holiday celebrations through the years and were well known and loved by our children.  Dave and I send our deepest sympathy to Sue for her (and our) loss and will always support her during this difficult time.  I am grateful to have known Glenn for 37 years.  He made a difference in people's lives during his lifetime.  Glenn was one-of-a kind and will live on in my memories.

August 29, 2020
As was mentioned elsewhere on this website, Glenn was an avid tennis player and that's how we originally met, on a tennis court.  
Glenn, along with Dave Pierfy and Bill Guthrie (I joined a year later), was a founding member of our original tennis group formed in 1983/84.  We played on Sunday nights at the old Mercer County courts at Trenton airport, where we had to hone our lobbing skills to avoid hitting the numerous rafters holding that decrepit facility up. as well as the occasional raccoon peering down from those rafters. After that facility closed down, we continued at Mercer County park in their new tennis bubble (when doing things in a bubble didn't have anything to do with the corona virus pandemic).  In those days it was just the four of us and we rarely missed a game!
At the same time, I played with another group during the week, and as some of the other players dropped out, I recruited Glenn and the other Sunday players to join our other group so that we all wound up playing two nights a week throughout the winter season.
Glenn was the oldest member of the group, but you would never know it by the way he played and moved around the court.  He was a great tennis partner, but more importantly, he was a wonderful friend of long standing.  Bonnie and I spent many enjoyable visits (and restaurant meals) with Glenn and Sue discussing many different topics of mutual interest, with travel being one of our favorites. We miss him, his friendship and his laughter.  The annual tennis banquets, of which he was always an integral part, will never be the same without Glenn. 
With love (and continuing friendship) to Sue.
Tom and Bonnie

July 13, 2020
The Palmers were the host family for my wife Jing, when she arrived in Princeton for the first year as an international student. He (and Sue) has been more than that for over a decade to both of us. His life with passion and excitement, his love to Sue over half a century (and still there), his constant curiosity to embrace new things in life... all established what I know about Glenn over the years as a great person, a friend and a life idol. Maybe it is better in another language to put some words here that my vocabulary is so limited to express my appreciation and admiration to this gentleman.

Life is busy, and life is sophisticated. Most of the time we do things for today or tomorrow. Somehow we don't even have a chance to think about what we need and how do we get there. It really is my pleasure to get to know him because he showed me a way of great life could possibly be as an ordinary human being.

I am thankful for the time we spent together. But I don't miss Glenn. I don't have to. He is with me, as always.

Glenn was a wonder.

May 13, 2020

Glenn was a wonder.

He demonstrated a unique and unlikely combination all the years we knew him: mischievous provocateur and earnest listener.As a teacher, he liked to raise hackles just enough to boost young people to their better levels of thinking.He did that as a friend and neighbor, too, but with a detective’s interest, investigating a new viewpoint enough to accurately weigh it on the scale of rationality.

Those lucky to have been in classes with devoted educators forget neither them nor the stirring experiences that made them unforgettable.Having Glenn and Sue as neighbors – and as mentors to our sons and all the neighborhood kids on Renfrew Avenue – regularly fomented the idea that thinking can be fun, such that it became a norm to grapple with hard problems even in a brief exchange, in the hope that knowledge could be widened and deepened sufficiently to yield a solution or two.In today’s new normal, it will be comforting (if not vital) to rely on this particular Palmer method for rigor.In Glenn’s memory, we will try.

With much love to Sue,

Kent Ashworth and Alison Cumming

May 5, 2020
You will be missed Uncle Glenn. So many memories. This photo captures one of them. I took it of you in NY on our family trip to visit you and Sue. You took us to many places and this has always been my favorite photo from the trip. There was a man laying there on a bench and you ran over to sit by him so I could get this photo. 

We love you ❤️

Pete, Jody, Dylan and Tyler
May 4, 2020
Lost an incredible part of my family. My uncle Glenn passed away. He was an amazing man with a smile and a sense of humor that could fill a room. I’m so thankful for Christmas in New York and having had the opportunity for some amazing final memories with you. I know you’re in a better place - finally reunited and relaxing with your brothers. Love you Glenn and I’ll miss the hell out of you.

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