The Glanges family lived at 4331 North Hall in the ’60s and ’70s. James John Glanges and Lottie Mae Bell moved into the home while their two daughters went to North Dallas High School. They had been in the Oak Lawn neighborhood for years. James Glanges was a Greek immigrant (original name Glantzis) who emigrated from Lavrio, Greece, a small Aegean coastal town off the southeast of Greece in 1923. He was a chef and cafe owner in Fort Worth and Dallas, working as a chef for the Worth Cafe on Fitzhugh. He married Lottie Mae Bell and had two daughters, Evalea and Joanna.
Joanna married Roy Douglas Sikes in 1962 and had three children, settling in Grand Prarie. Evalea, or Lea, as she was called, was valedictorian of her North Dallas High School class. She was also the school newspaper’s editor and had several articles about the high school in the Dallas Morning News. She became a prominent Fort Worth surgeon and in the late 90s was the Chairperson of Surgery at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. She was married in 1967 to a fellow physician, Dr. Tommy Gene Gleghorn, meeting at Southwestern Medical School, but divorced 9 months later and reverted to her maiden name. She later met Dr. Bena Tomlinson who became her life partner until she died in 1999.
On November 22, 1963, Lea was a second-year medical student training at Parkland Hospital when Kennedy was assassinated and transported to Parkland. She and other students ran to the emergency room ambulance bay area to witness the tragic events. She can seen in various photos and films close to the Presidential limousine. In 2003, after a lifetime as a surgeon, she bravely came forward as one of the numerous eyewitnesses to a bullet hole in the windshield of the Presidential limousine in the History Channel documentary series, “The Men Who Killed Kennedy”. This is her account:
“I was a 2nd-year medical student at Southwestern Medical University in Dallas, Texas. We ran around the side of the building to the Emergency Room exit, and the Presidential limousine was there. Had been standing there for some time just watching the back of the Emergency Room, when I realized that there was a *bullet hole* in the windshield. Talked to my friend standing next to me, and said, ‘Look there’s a *bullet hole* in the windshield!’ and pointed it out to them. At the time I did not know any of the details of the shooting. I was quite shocked when I looked up and saw the *bullet hole*. But it was very clear – it was a through-and-through *bullet hole* through the windshield of the car – from front to back. I don’t believe there were even any cracks associated with that bullet hole. It seemed like a high-velocity bullet that had penetrated – from front to back – in that glass pane. At which point, a security officer of some type raced forward and jumped in the limousine and drove it off – even as I was leaning against it – to an area back of us somewhere. And that was the last time I saw the limousine.”
See her filmed account here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TisPzyrM-0