Glenn L. Madsen
Services for Glenn L. Madsen, 64, Lawrence, will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church. A burial, with military honors, will be at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Dr. Madsen died Monday, July 22, 2002, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
He was born June 16, 1938, in Lincoln, Neb., the son of Ole and Alice Madsen. He obtained his bachelor of arts degree from Midland College, Fremont, Neb., and his medical degree from the University of Nebraska in 1965. After completing his internship at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Lincoln, Neb., he completed his radiology residency at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita and became board certified by the American College of Radiology.
Dr. Madsen served in the United States Public Health Service in Baltimore and Seattle. In 1971, he moved to Lawrence, where he co-founded Radiological Professional Services and helped develop the Lawrence Medical Plaza at Sixth and Maine streets. He worked at Lawrence Memorial Hospital for 28 years and served on the hospital’s Executive Committee. He retired in 1999 after 30 years of practice.
He served as president of Douglas County Medical Society and Lawrence Breakfast Cosmopolitan Club. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, where he served on the council. He was also a member of Marco Lutheran Church, Marco Island, Fla.
Dr. Madsen married Mary-Susan “Susie” Distel on Aug. 18, 1962, in San Gabriel, Calif. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include his mother, Eudora; two sons, John, San Diego, and Scott, Wickenburg, Ariz.; two daughters, Kimberly Beeler, Lawrence, and Kirsten Rysko, Overland Park; a sister, Phyllis Luebke, Stillwater, Okla.; and seven grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to the Glenn L. Madsen Memorial Fund to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Fund, and Trinity Lutheran Church, sent in care of Warren-McElwain mortuary.
Online condolences may be sent to info@warrenmcelwain.com, subject: Madsen.