Glenys was born in Wales and grew up in Cardiff and the Pembrokeshire coast. She immigrated to to Detroit with her three little boys in 1969 where she was involved in the creation of the first Head Start. After losing her son Scott in 1989, she moved to Santa Fe, NM where she threw herself into hospice work. Drawing upon her experience of caring for Scott and training over 400 volunteers to assist with his care, in 2005 she formed Coming Home Connection, a volunteer and low-cost home care agency. In 2018, she passed Coming Home Connection to a new board and executive director to concentrate on opening Scott’s House.