Glenn Drechsel

Glenn was born July 17, 1923, and passed away March 21, 2021, at the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy, Illinois. He lived in Midlothian for 98 years.

Glenn enlisted in the Naval Reserves in 1944 and received a Medical Discharge resulting from an injury during training at Biloxi, Mississippi, after serving six months.

Glenn returned home and became a Pipe Fitter with IHB Railroad and later took over his father’s cookie distribution business, servicing grocery stores in the Chicago area.

He married Lorraine Bettenhausen of Tinley Park and they had 2 sons. Glenn loved traveling and camping with his family as well as golfing, fishing, hunting and card games.