| Graduation Year | Class of 1915 |
| Date of Birth | Dec 13, 1901 |
| Date of Passing | Sep 27, 1977 |
| About | Glenn Russell Dolberg, of LaCanada/Flintridge California, beloved husband of Nola Luxford Dolberg, passed away Sept. 24, 1977. Surviving are several nieces and nephew in San Diego and New Zealand. Memorial service Saturday October 1, 2 p.m. at Church of the Flowers, Forest Lawn’ Glendale. Inurement at Forest Lawn-Glendale. Mr. Dolberg was born in Charlevoix Michigan, October 2, 1896, a son of Andrew M. and Ella E. (Huff) Dolberg. He was reared on his father’s farm and after graduating from High School went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was employed as a photographer until 1918, when he enlisted as a musician in the Sixth Cavalry Band of the United States Regular Army. Two months later he sailed for France with that contingent remaining abroad for 18 months. In France he was station at Paris, Tours and Vendome. He was discharged from service at the Presidio, San Francisco, and went to San Diego California, to visit his parents, before going to El Centro, California, where he was branch manager of a Vreeland Studio, until he came to Glendale in September 1921 to open up a studio of his own. Mr. Dolberg was a cornetist, but gave it up to study voice, being a baritone. He took up music and singing while attending high school. He was the leader of the Charlevoix High School Band for 2 years, and at the age of seventeen was the director of the Charlevoix City Band. In California, he opened a photography studio, he sold his studio in 1926 and later became the program director for radio stations KEX in Portland, Ore, and then for KHJ, KFI, KPO, KGO, KQW, and KECA in California and a writer/producer and program director for NBC. He was director of music at First Baptist church of Oakland. In 1944 began working for BMI Music, and became a vice president in charge of radio station relations, retiring in 1962. His first wife was Dorothy Jane Peart, they were married in 1924, he second wife was Eleanor Fraser, a former radio singer, she passed in August 1957. He married Minola “Nola” Adelaide Pratt Luxford, a film actress in the 1920s-1930s, in August 1959. Nola founded the Anzac Club of New York, and through her wartime radio broadcasts she became known as the "Angel of the Anzacs". She was awarded the OBE for her services. |
