Frank J. Drechsler

DRECHSLER, EWOLDT, SPRING

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 9/17/2014 at 12:10:13

Frank Drechsler

Services for Frank J. Drechsler, 79, of LeClaire will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at McGinnis Funeral Home. Burial will be in Davenport Memorial Park. Visitation is 5 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Memorials may be made to the LeClaire Ambulance Service, American Heart Association or Izaak Walton League.

Mr. Drechsler died Saturday at Davenport Osteopathic Hospital.He retired from Rock Island Corps of Engineers, where he had been employed at Lock and Dam 14.

Mr. Drechsler married Mildred Haessler in 1931 in Davenport. He was an avid hunter, trapper and fisherman.

Survivors include his wife; daughters, Mrs. Otto Ewoldt and Mrs. Vernon (Diana) Spring, both of LeClaire, seven grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; sisters, Laura Hansen, Kewanee, Ill., and Mable Filbrandt, Bettendorf; and a brother, Alfred, Princeton.

Source: The Quad City Times, Davenport, Ia., 06 Aug 1964, p. 6.