Glen Harjo

Our sympathy is extended to the family of Glen Harjo

Glenn Dale Harjo “Locv”, 62, of Holdenville, Oklahoma passed away November 23, 2022 at SSM Saint Anthony Hospital in Midwest City, Oklahoma. He was born in Talihina, Oklahoma on March 2, 1960 to Newman Harjo Jr and Cindy Lee Bruner Harjo.

He attended grade school at Bearden Public School in Bearden, Oklahoma. He was an Okemah High School graduate in 1979. He also was a team member of the Okemah High School Football Class A State Championship team of 1976. After graduation, he moved to Edmond, Oklahoma working for Asplundh Construction and Harry K. Myers Construction as a heavy equipment operator. He also did handyman work at The Bank NA (Holdenville), Rudy Alan’s Steakhouse (Wewoka), and J-Weezees in Holdenville. While doing work for J-Weezees, he also was the native nanny, door greeter, maintenance, landscape, or just there teasing people with a smile.

Helovedspendingtime with family and friends. He loved to joke and laugh. He did beadwork and worked on cars. He loved collecting turtle figurines, trying variety of teas, cooking, grilling, cigars, tinkering with electrical things, jazz, blues, sci-fi and history channels. He also loved nature, animals, planting flowers, collecting bonsai trees, bamboo and doing landscape. But most of all, laughter. He will be missed dearly by his smile, greetings, laughter, and presence.

He is survived by four sisters, Roberta Kay Harjo, Carol Harjo, Penny Harjo, and Barbara Colleen Jackson (Pete Garcia), and one brother Thomas Harjo all of Holdenville; nephews are Timothy Harjo, Nickolas Jackson, Zachary Harjo, and John T. Harjo; nieces McKenzie Jackson, Felicia Harjo, and Alicia Harjo; great nephews Chase Crockett, Kehl Harjo, Alyc Harjo, Silas Puente, Bryson Moses, Jordan Chick, and Noah Moses.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Newman and Cindy Harjo; maternal grandmother Cora Mae Lowe “Cvlv”; nephews Marcus Lee Harjo and Brandon Scott Puente; great-nephew Dillon Harjo; and great-niece Keelie Fixico.

Wake service was held Sunday November 27th, at Hudson Phillips Funeral Home in Holdenville.

Funeral service was 2:00 pm Monday, November 28th, at Greenleaf Missionary Baptist Church in Okemah, with Wayne Harjo officiating the service. Interment followed at Little Quarsarty Cemetery in Cromwell, Oklahoma.