Glenn Lee Webb, 83, died July 31, 2026, leaving behind a family who adored him and a Kanab community considerably larger than the one he was born into.

Glenn had a gift for collecting people. He checked on his friends and made room in his life for anyone who needed company. His family remembers a man with a quick wit, enduring optimism and a generous heart.

Glenn was born April 24, 1943, in Walla Walla, Washington, the son of Glenn Thomas Webb and Gloria Lee Webb. He spent his early childhood there before the family moved to Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1956.

In Alaska, Glenn met Janet Ann Winters. They later moved to San Francisco, married in 1962 and began a family. Glenn followed his father into the newspaper business, beginning a career that eventually took him to Utah and the Salt Lake Tribune. As newspaper production moved from hot type into the computer age, Glenn moved with it, eventually serving as a production manager and working in labor relations.

Glenn later married Hollace “Hoolie” Curtis, the love of his life. They lived in Park City and Bigfork, Montana, before eventually making Kanab their home.

Glenn was a fixture at Jakey Leigh’s Café, where his connection went back to its days as the Vermillion Espresso Bar. Years later, when Jakey considered buying the business herself, Glenn was one of the people she turned to for advice.

Glenn was a good dad who made staying present in the lives of his three children a priority. Laura remembered Christmas mornings when the children would wake to find Glenn sitting outside in his car, headlights on, waiting until it was time to come inside. Their presents were often wrapped in pages of the Salt Lake Tribune.

He loved fishing, hiking and camping, and his grandchildren knew him simply as “Fishing Grandpa.”

In 2019, Glenn nearly died after suffering cardiac arrest on Father’s Day. His family described the seven years that followed as a gift. Glenn kept driving, gathering with friends, following the news, looking for the silver lining and, most importantly, caring for Hoolie.

By the time Glenn died, his routines had become woven into the community. His friends looked for him at Jakey’s. They expected the conversation, the joke and the invitation to sit down and talk about everything from music and local politics to who won the weekly poker game.

Glenn’s friends and family gathered at Jakey’s last month to remember him. Hoolie was there, along with Glenn’s three children, Laura Jensen, David Webb and Susie Larson, and his granddaughter Kayla Webb. There were stories, tears, laughter and songs shared in a room filled with people Glenn had collected over a rich and remarkable lifetime.