A Minnesota man who drove a school bus for 55 years was laid to rest in a school bus casket.
Glen Davis was arguably the best-known driver in all of Grand Meadow, Minnesota.
For 55 years, residents of his small town of just over a thousand trusted him to bus their children to and from school. He was proud to say he’d never once gotten in an accident.
He was a school bus driver from 1949 to 2005. It was one of the longest jobs he’d ever had — and perhaps his favorite.
So it’s appropriate that Davis was laid to rest in a school-bus yellow casket, stamped with the number 3 — the number of the first bus he ever drove.
Davis got to see his custom casket five years before his death. It was a gift from Jim Hindt, the owner of a local funeral home.
It’s painted yellow with black hinges, with the same lettering that appeared on Davis’s 1949 school bus.
Davis loved it.
Hindt told reporters that the bus driver had comforted his family when his 18-month-old daughter was diagnosed with cancer.
Hindt’s daughter grew up, cancer-free. And to repay the school bus driver’s kindness, he gifted Davis the casket.
Davis, known as “Glennie” to the generations of kids he took to school, was proud of being a bus driver (and of his spotless driving record). He was proud of the town he spent his life in, too.
When he wasn’t driving a school bus, he farmed over 1,100 acres of land with his three brothers.