{"id":1191,"date":"2019-11-05T14:17:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T20:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2019-11-05T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T20:17:56","slug":"maxine-mickey-drexler-46-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/2019\/11\/05\/maxine-mickey-drexler-46-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxine &#8220;Mickey&#8221; Drexler &#8217;46 &#8217;57"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maxine \u201cMickey\u201d Drexler \u201946 \u201957 of Bloomington, Illinois, died Sept. 25, 2019. She was 94. Mickey earned bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in voice performance at Illinois Wesleyan, and received the outstanding music award at commencement in 1946. Mickey taught voice at IWU for 35 years. She additionally served as president of IWU\u2019s Alumni Association and League of Women. She was a lifelong member of First Christian Church, where she sang in the choir, occasionally as a soloist, and for many years directed choirs. She also served as a deacon and taught Sunday and vacation Bible school. She was also active in Sigma Alpha Iota, P.E.O. International, Amateur Musical Club Board and Habitat for Humanity. She was a member of a bridge club for more than 60 years and loved golf, sewing, decorating, crafts, gardening and dinner parties. She corresponded regularly with many of her former students and colleagues. She also loved to travel with family and students. She is survived by two children.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full obituary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pantagraph.com\/obituaries\/maxine-mickey-drexler\/article_2ac5a4c0-fbcb-5adf-8762-826ba6c64fd7.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1192 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2019\/11\/Drexler4857-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2019\/11\/Drexler4857-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2019\/11\/Drexler4857-768x1099.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2019\/11\/Drexler4857-716x1024.jpg 716w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2019\/11\/Drexler4857.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maxine \u201cMickey\u201d Drexler \u201946 \u201957 of Bloomington, Illinois, died Sept. 25, 2019. She was 94. Mickey earned bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in voice performance at Illinois Wesleyan, and received the outstanding music award at commencement in 1946. Mickey taught voice at IWU for 35 years. She additionally served as president of IWU\u2019s Alumni Association and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}