Glenn Charles CORBIN

CORBIN, NEHRING, ROGALLA, JERMAN, WALTER, HILLSMAN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/17/2014 at 19:16:18

January 8, 1939 ---- June 25, 2014

Glenn Charles “Chuck” Corbin, 75, of Coralville, passed away Wednesday, June 25, at Lantern Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Coralville. Funeral services for Chuck Corbin were at 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 30, at Bethany Lutheran Church, 2712 Washington Avenue, Iowa Falls. A time of visitation was from 5-7 p.m. on Sunday, June 29, at the Linn’s Funeral Home, in Iowa Falls. Burial was at the Union Cemetery, Iowa Falls.

Glenn C. Corbin was born Jan. 8, 1939, the son of M. Glenn Corbin and Dorthea E. [Nehring] Corbin. He attended the Mapleton Community Schools, graduating in 1957. He received his Bachelors Degree at Morningside College in 1961 and a Masters Degree at Iowa State University in 1977. On July 15, 1961, Chuck was united in marriage to Gloria Lynn Rogalla in Belmond. To this union two children were born: Allison and C. Chad.

Chuck started teaching at Central Lyon Community Schools, then teaching and coaching at Waterloo Community Schools, before teaching, coaching, and administrating at Iowa Falls Community Schools. Chuck then bought the Coachman Clothing in Clear Lake.

After closing the store, he was a school administrator for RE-1 Valley School District, Sterling, Colo. He retired in 1998 to Coralville. During his tenure he was a classroom educator in social sciences and physical education, a secondary school principal, coached football, track, basketball, and baseball, was an athletic director, and always took immense pride in the success of his academic students and student athletes. Chuck had the ability to mentor students, find purpose, pursue success, and build lifelong relationships.

He was passionate about his favorite hobbies – walleye fishing and collecting antique fishing equipment. He could never spend enough time on a dock casting his line. He quietly held his belief that all students had the potential to succeed and was instrumental in helping them achieve that goal. Chuck was a good man, father, husband, and humanitarian. He held deep, quiet religious beliefs. As a grandfather, Chuck avidly attended all grandchildren’s activities.

Chuck was preceded in death by his parents, M. Glenn and Dorthea Corbin; sister, Eleanor Jerman; and brother, Fredrick Corbin. He is survived by his wife, Gloria Corbin; children: Allison [Rod] Walter of Cedar Rapids, C. Chad [Sharrie] Corbin of Etna, Wyo.; grandchildren, Taylor G. and C. Evan Corbin of Etna, Wyo., Naomi Hillsman of Phoenix, Ariz., Roderick Kai and Charles C. Walter of Cedar Rapids; and brother, Gary Corbin of Omaha, Neb. Memorials may be directed to the family c/o his wife: Gloria Corbin, 2138 Terra Lane, Coralville, Iowa 52241. The Linn’s Funeral Homes Iowa Falls Chapel was entrusted with the arrangements.

Mapleton Press - Mapleton, Iowa
July 3, 2014