My wife recently contacted the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County (Illinois) to find out the fate of a memorial plaque dedicated to Joseph Schlick, my mother Louise Schlick’s brother who was killed in Vietnam in March of 1968.

Originally the stone/plaque was at the former Forest Preserve maintenance facility on Geneva/ Saint Charles Road in Glen Ellyn near what is now the Churchill Woods Forest Preserve. The stone and plaque was later moved to the second Forest Preserve Headquarters located off of Illinois Route 53 and south of Roosevelt Road in Glen Ellyn. When a new headquarters was built on the former Dan and Ada Rice Estate on Naperville Road south or Illinois Route 56/Butterfield Road in Wheaton the plaque was relocated near the main entrance to the new headquarter building.

My wife and I want to thank Dan Weeden the GIS Coordinator and Jeannine Kannegiesser Chief Partnership & Philanthropy Officer for the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County (Illinois) for locating it and for the photos and aerial map of the headquarters. Mystery solved!

For further information on Joseph Schlick see my previous blog entry on his life and service to the country.