Biography: Dr. Lawson Edward Glover, Jr. passed away on August 30, 2015. He was born on January 4, 1943 in Fort Worth, Texas to Lawson Edward Glover, Sr. and Maxine McGee Glover. In his early childhood his family moved to Malvern, Arkansas, where he attended Malvern Public Schools, graduating in 1960. He was an accomplished Boy Scout, achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and earning both the Silver Palm and the God and Country Awards. He attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He completed his senior year concurrently with his first year of medical school at UAMS, graduating with a B.S. in 1965. In 1967 he was awarded his M.D.. He chose to specialize in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology and Metabolism. His residencies in those specialties were interrupted by two years in the U.S. Army (1969-71). He then joined the Arkansas National Guard (1971- 76) and, over the next few years, completed his medical training. In 1974 he began practicing medicine at the Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic (LRDC). He left the National Guard in 1976 with the rank of Major, and thereafter devoted his energies entirely to his career and his family. In 1964 Lawson married Judith Gail Sesser to whom he was married for 48 years. During that time, they traveled the world together, raised their two children and enjoyed the arrival of grandchildren. Judy passed away in 2012. In 2013 Lawson met and fell in love with Amelia Walters of Little Rock. They married in 2014 and remained happily together until his death. From 1974 until his retirement in 2010, Lawson established himself as a prominent, highly talented, and well-loved member of the Arkansas medical community. At LRDC he served repeatedly on the executive committee, taking the reins as its president in 2000. He also served on many committees at Baptist Medical Center, often as chairman. He was the hospital?s Chief of Medicine in 1986-87 and its Chief of Staff in 1996-97. In 1987 he traveled to China as part of an exchange of physicians between that country and the United States. After his retirement, he enjoyed donating his time and talent to community clinics in Central Arkansas. Lawson was a man of many interests and talents. Outside of medicine he sought intellectual fulfillment in the study of physics and cosmology, American history, and evolutionary biology. He was a voracious reader, with a special love for espionage novels. He also spent many years as an avid baker and cultivator of orchids. He served as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Arkansas Orchid Society. After his retirement from medicine, he and his son-in-law, Kent Bryant, learned woodworking. Together they built their ?dream workshop? and set about creating beautiful hand-crafted pieces such as chairs, benches tables, and cutting boards. They donated some of these works to Central Arkansas organizations such as Second Presbyterian Church and Little Rock Central High School. Choral music was a great passion of Lawson?s and an integral part of his worship. From his high-school years on he sang in choirs around the state and gradually developed an outstanding tenor and, later, baritone voice. In the 1980?s he was a member of the Arkansas Chamber Singers. As a longtime member and ordained Elder of Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock, he sang devotedly with the choir, usually in both Sunday services, and participated in joint performances of the church choir and the UALR community chorus in the performance of such varied works as Orff?s Carmina Burana, Gilbert and Sullivan?s H.M.S. Pinafore, and Brahms?s Ein Deutsches Requiem. Lawson is survived by his wife Amelia Walters, by his brother, David ?Mac? Glover of Malvern; his daughter Amy Glover Bryant (Kent) of Little Rock; his son Christopher Lawson Glover (Satya) of San Francisco, CA; and by his three grandchildren: Jackson Thomas Bryant, Amy Caroline Bryant, and his one-year-old namesake, Styron Lawson Edward Glover. In addition are many loving cousins, nieces, nephews, and close friends. Honorary pallbearers are Dr. Phillip J. Peters, Phil Kaplan, Henry Goodspeed, Daniel Onorato, S.T. ?Bud? Bryant, Dr. Bevan Keating and Kira Keating. A visitation will be held Tuesday, September 8 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Ruebel Funeral Home. The funeral service will be Wednesday, September 9 at 2 p.m. at Second Presbyterian Church. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations be made to Heifer Project International or to Second Presbyterian Church Adult Choir, 600 Pleasant Valley Drive, 72227. Arrangements are under the direction of Ruebel Funeral Home, www.ruebelfuneralhome.com.