Marie Glick
Pioneering Spirit
It's certainly not polite to ask a lady's age. Marie Glick, however, is proud to tell of her long, interesting life and to reveal the living history she keeps in her memory.
Born in 1907 in Oklahoma, in a one-room cabin that cost $25 to build, Mrs. Glick lived with her mother and older brother. They made their home on 160 acres of "Indian Territory," which they won the right to purchase in a homestead lottery. Barely five years old in 1912, Mrs. Glick remembers hearing her brother read a newspaper account of the sinking of the Titanic.
Mrs. Glick's mother, Eula Ursula, remarried and returned the family to Texas with her husband, Samuel Miller Moser. They lived on a farm/ranch outside San Angelo, which Mrs. Glick remembers being "289 acres, more or less" since the property boundary on the north was the Concho River. "I remember thinking that an ocean, where the Titanic sank, must be really big," she recalls, having never seen an actual ocean. "It's got to be bigger than the Concho River!"
Marie Glick lives on her own in an apartment on Fort Worth's east side, near the campus of Texas Wesleyan University, where her late husband, Walter, was a dean. She's doing well, with a weekly assist from one of the registered nurses on CVHC's home healthcare team.
She is full of pep and personality, and enjoys every minute of her life. "I know heaven is my home," Mrs. Glick is fond of saying, "but I'm not homesick!"