Glen Deen

Glen William Deen passed away on October 15, 2014, in Plano, Texas due to complications from a heart attack.

Glen was born May 31, 1935 in Dallas, Texas to Lucile Davis and William Harle Deen. After attending Crozier Tech High School in Dallas, he attended Arlington State College and SMU before settling at the University of Texas at Austin, where he received a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1960.

After graduating, he moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to work for Collins Radio, where he received two patents for his work. While there he met Evelyn Brockmeyer and they were married in 1963. After their son Bob was born in 1965, they moved back to the Dallas area (Richardson, and later Plano).

While at Collins Radio from 1960-1969, he began learning about computers and after taking an H&R Block tax course, to help figure out taxes for a failed attempt at raising chinchillas, he decided that a computer should be able to do taxes faster and better. Glen founded TaxLogic Corp. in 1969. After the business failed in 1970, he went to work for Electrospace Systems as an electrical engineer. In 1972, Glen restarted TaxLogic with the help of Evelyn, and it grew into a successful company, eventually employing 140 people and making the Inc Magazine 500 list of the country's fastest growing private companies. TaxLogic was sold to a competitor in 1988, where Glen and Evelyn continued working for another year.

Subsequently, Glen spent time working as a research assistant for Dr. Brian Tinsley at the University of Texas at Dallas for several years, where he co-authored a mainstream science paper about a relationship between cosmic rays and clouds. He then held down a number of odd jobs before retiring.

Glen had a lifelong passion for science, engineering, technology and music. As a youth he experimented with chemistry and received his ham radio license at the age of 16. He also enjoyed radio control airplanes, which eventually inspired Glen to get his pilot's license for full-scale airplanes in 1956. In 1981 he bought a telescope and joined the Texas Astronomical Society, kindling an interest in astronomy that lasted the rest of his life. He was a founding member of the Lone Star Observatory, a serious amateur telescope facility in Oklahoma. He created and sold MicroSky, a microfiche reproduction of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, used by amateur astronomers, as well as an astronomical jigsaw puzzle. Perhaps his greatest passion was classical music. After being exposed at an early age, he was hooked. Glen and Evelyn held season tickets for the Dallas Symphony for most of their adult lives, and when he was not attending concerts, he listened to music constantly.

His relentless curiosity and desire to question everything led him on a unique faith journey. After becoming disillusioned with mainstream Christianity in college, he became a devout atheist for much of his adult life. In the early 90's a series of events took him from atheism to agnosticism, then to the Unitarian Church, then the Unity Church, increasing his faith at each step. He eventually spent 5 years in the Mormon Church before finding his final home at Christ United Methodist Church in 2005.

This spiritual journey led him to the work that consumed the last two decades of his life: eschatology (study of the end times) and research in alternative physics. He joined the Natural Philosophy Alliance in 1998, where he presented papers on D.C. Miller's experiments, and their evidence for anisotropy and an ether. Since then, he published a steady stream of papers on anomalies in the solar system, theories of gravity and redshift, and his own ideas about anti-matter and catastrophism. Although his theories are considered fringe, he applied rigorous mathematics to them in an attempt to work out the implications of his ideas. He was looking forward to observing a comet that he predicted would impact the moon on February 3, 2015.

Glen suffered from heart issues for a long time, starting with a bypass in 1992. He said on numerous occasions his faith had prepared him for the next phase, when God called him home and he hoped to finally get all his questions answered.

Glen is survived by his wife Evelyn Deen, son Bob Deen, daughter in law Gwen Deen, brother Ken Deen, sister in law Michelle Deen, brother Roy Deen, sister in law Mary Deen and another sister in law Mary Deen who was married to Glen's brother Jay Allen Deen, who predeceased him along with his father William Harle Deen and his mother Lucile Deen. Also surviving are numerous nieces and nephews.

Glen's life will be celebrated at a memorial service at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at Christ United Methodist Church, 3101 Coit Rd., Plano, Texas 75075. If desired, memorial contributions may be made to the Christ United Methodist Church music program or to Salvation Army.