Gale Wilbur Brechtel
May 20, 1924 — January 14, 2012
Gale Wilbur Brechtel, 87, of Freeport, passed away peacefully on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at Freeport Rehabilitation and HealthCare Center. He was born on a farm north of Waddams Grove, Illinois, on May 20, 1924. He was the son of Carl and Irene (Biesemeier) Brechtel. It snowed the day he was born and his dad was in the middle of planting corn. In 1930 he began his educational career at Crossroads School north of Waddams. He and his siblings walked 1
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