Marvin Hagler in Glen

Marvelous Marvin Hagler was a regular at the late Cliton Guptill's service station in Glen (where the Irving station is located today). The former middleweight boxing champ is seen here in 1991 at the station. (LLOYD JONES PHOTO)

CONWAY — Retired middleweight champion "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, who died last Saturday at his Bartlett home at age 66, was remembered as one of the valley’s own after the famous boxer first started coming here in the early 1980s, then bought a home in Bartlett in 1985.

“As far as I’m concerned, he was the valley’s celebrity,” is how Terry O’Brien, co-owner of the Red Parka Steakhouse and Pub in Glen, summed up Hagler.

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