Clarence Glauner

	Clarence Glauner
	; Glauner at the age of 110
Birth:	22 March 1910; Honey Brook, Pennsylvania, USA
Death:	17 August 2020; West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Age:	110 years, 148 days
Country:	USA
	Validated

Clarence Cairns "Dutch" Glauner (22 March 1910 – 17 August 2020) was an American supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). At the time of his death, he was the oldest known living man in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, and was also tied with Melvin Campbell as the third-oldest living man in the United States, after Lawrence Brooks and Philip Sharp.

Biography[]

Early Life and Family[]

Clarence Glauner was born in Honey Brook, Pennsylvania, USA on 22 March 1910. He was the third of eight children born to George and Mary (née Cairns) Glauner. During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, his father and several siblings were affected and bedridden. His father survived, but died four years later in 1922 at the age of 42. His mother died in 1980, just shy of her 100th birthday.

Glauner married Margaret "Peg" Armstrong on 26 April 1930. The couple had two children, Betty Louise Dunning (1930–2019), and LeRoy "Bud" Glauner (born c.1934). Margaret died in 2008 at the age of 100, after 78 years of marriage.

Careers, Later Life, and Death[]

In 1940, Glauner registered for the draft, but as a sheet metal worker, a reserved occupation, he was exempt from service during World War II. He also tried his hand at several other jobs, including dairy farming and metal roofing, before becoming a plumber’s apprentice. He eventually opened his own plumbing service, C.C. Glauner in 1945.

Glauner retired in 1980, but stayed active, maintaining the rental properties he bought and managed. At the time of his 110th birthday in March 2020, he had two grandchildren, one great-grandson, and one great-great-granddaughter.

Glauner died in West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA on 17 August 2020 at the age of 110 years, 148 days. He is currently the oldest known man ever to have died in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.