History of FBGNC @ Crooked Creek

Fay Biccard Glick was born in 1886 in Rochester, Indiana. Her father, Adolph Biccard, came as a young man with his parents to north central Indiana from a small village in Alsace-Lorraine, the French-German province that switched flags four times between 1870 and 1945. An only child, Fay Biccard Glick grew up among the cornfields of Fulton County and learned to love fishing with a cane pole and nightcrawlers for the big bluegill and bass of Lake Manitou.

In 1902, Fay Biccard moved to the Hoosier capital city when her father took a job as manager of the Indianapolis Brewing Company. In 1910, she married Reuben Frank Glick, an Indianapolis native who ran an automobile supply business downtown. Known to everybody in Indianapolis as “Ruby,” he and his bride moved into a home that Adolph Biccard had built at 36th and Salem.

The couple were blessed with two children, Eugene, born in 1921, and Arthur, born two years later. Eugene grew up to be one of the city’s most successful builders and developers. In one of the great tragedies of Fay Biccard Glick’s life, Arthur Glick died of spinal meningitis in 1937 at the age of 14.

Fay Biccard Glick was a lifelong Democrat who instilled in her surviving son a philanthropic spirit that called for sharing talents and wealth with those not blessed with the same opportunities the Glick family has enjoyed. Fay Biccard Glick would be pleased with the family pavilion that bears her name because it embodies the sense of family life that she handed down as a legacy to her son, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Fay Biccard Glick died in Indianapolis in 1960.

Service Area

Crooked Creek serves the geographic area of Indianapolis that extends North to I-465, South to 38th Street, West to I-46, and East to Spring Mill/White River. The agency has an annual operating budget of approximately $800,000 for 2009.