Marguerite Flentge

From Encyclopedia of Des Plaines

Marguerite Flentge (1916-2001) was a librarian at the Des Plaines Public Library from 1962 to 1982. She initiated Battle of the Books at the library. The Marguerite Flentege Award is named after her.

Marguerite Flentge with a Santa Claus project by Sheila Williams and Jane Kleczewski of Forest School. Undated slide, probably Christmas 1981.


Illinois Libraries, January 1973
Flentge family
Henry Flentge
(1843-1919)
Augusta Hildebrandt
(1851-1931)
Edward Henry Behrens
(1876-1949)
Catherine Flentge
(1879-1923)
Arthur D. Flentge
(1884-1944)
Elsie Held
(1886-1978)
Elsie Anna Flentge
(1891-1966)
Erich Herman Louis Schalk
(1894-1981)
Marguerite Flentge
(1916-2001)
Herbert Wallace
Flentge
(1920-2003)

Some family members are omitted for space reasons.