Glenn Joseph Hartung

Glenn J. Hartung, age 85, of Marco Island, Florida and formerly Schaumburg, Illinois, passed away on October 28, 2020. It was his last wish to “slide out gracefully” and he did so at home on Marco Island with his three daughters at his side. Glenn was born on July 26, 1935, to Clarence and Wilhelmina (Lolwing) Hartung in Cuba City, Wisconsin. He spent most of his young life in Platteville, Wisconsin and especially enjoyed working with his parents at their grocery store on Main Street and playing basketball with friends. Glenn earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1957.

Following college, Glenn took a job with Touche Ross Bailey & Smart (Touche), now Deloitte, and moved to the Chicago area. While there he was drafted and served in the US Army in Aberdeen, Maryland. After returning home, he worked for Touche for nine years before leaving to serve as Chief Financial Officer of Wally Findlay Galleries which ignited his love of art. He was a passionate art collector and greatly enjoyed sharing stories about his art. During this time, he and his former wife, Carole, raised their three girls in Mt. Prospect, Illinois. Glenn eventually left the art business to partner in a real estate development firm, Walden Investment Corporation. He spent the next thirty years as a General Partner and Chief Financial Officer developing apartment, office and hotel projects primarily in the Chicago area. In his final working years, he partnered with his daughter, Kristin, to launch a management consulting firm focused on the federal government marketplace.

Glenn loved playing and watching golf and was particularly happy when, at the height of his game, he broke 80. He was especially thrilled when he had his first hole in one at age 77. He was passionate about teaching his daughters how to play golf, sending them to golf school at Pinehurst, and introducing them to the infamous pot bunkers at St. Andrews. He was also well-known among family and friends for his putting lessons. Glenn also enjoyed spending time, and especially playing cribbage and cards, with his family and friends on his visits to Wisconsin. Glenn was a proud member, and former President, of Rolling Green Country Club in Arlington Heights, Illinois for 50 years. In 1978, he “discovered” Marco Island and started visiting regularly with his family. He moved to Marco Island full-time in 2017, where he relished the views from his lanai and visits from his children and grandchildren.

Glenn’s love for Wisconsin sports was unwavering. Having come of age during the Lombardi years, he immensely enjoyed the Green Bay Packers and was a die-hard University of Wisconsin (UW) Badger fan. He started college during the decade in which Al Ameche won the Heisman and Wisconsin was the National Champion runner up. Then he suffered patiently and optimistically through 30 years of mediocre Badger sports, but benefited from the next 30 years of the Badgers return to glory in football and basketball with the onset of the Alvarez era in 1990. He famously claims to have predicted the colossal success of former UW basketball coach Bo Ryan, a UW-Platteville product. He shared Badger football tickets with his brother, Paul, in Section V of Camp Randall Stadium which he considered “his” spot and held those tickets for more than 50 years.

Glenn lived a joyful life with unwavering optimism. He was a gentle man with a kind soul who always thought of others first. He was dearly loved and will be greatly missed. Glenn was an extraordinary son, brother, father, uncle, grandfather and friend. He is survived by his three daughters Kristin (Brian) Berry of McLean, Virginia, Cynthia Hartung (Doug Scambler) of Laramie, Wyoming, and Nicole Hartung of Cheyenne, Wyoming and his four adoring grandchildren Billie, Austin, Nicole, and Ben. Glenn is also survived by his sisters, Jean Jones and Doris Grotkin, and his adoring nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Clarence and Wilhelmina, his brother Paul Hartung, and brother-in-law’s Court Grotkin and Jerry Jones.

A memorial mass will be held on Saturday, October 31, 2020, at 1:00 pm Eastern Time at San Marco Catholic Church in Marco Island, Florida. His dear friend, Father Medard Laz of Ft. Lauderdale, formerly of Holy Family Catholic Church in Inverness, Illinois will officiate. The mass will be available via Facebook Live video conferencing. A private Christian interment will be held at San Marco Catholic Parish at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Food for the Poor interdenominational Christian ministry that serves those living in poverty in 17 countries throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. For additional information and/or the Facebook Live link, please contact [email protected] or [email protected].

Memories of Glenn, photos, and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.hodgesjosberger.com.

www.foodforthepoor.org/buildingdreams: Any donations may be submitted to: ATTN: Trichina Chue/Special Events Food For The Poor, Inc. 6401 Lyons Rd Coconut Creek, FL 33073. Please include a note with “SC149851” inside the envelope so that the donation may be directed to Father Laz’s current project to build a new school in Haiti.