As 5th generation members of the Gretsch family, we grew up in a home with pictures of an elegant woman, Maxine Lois Elsner, whom we never met. Our grandmother long fascinated us as she looked through the photographs, seemingly into our own eyes, wearing ball gowns or...
Multi-talented First Lady to Bill Gretsch and mother of current president, Fred W. Gretsch. Sylvia Gretsch was an independent, outgoing, multi-talented lady who helped her husband, Bill, during the “scaled-down production” war years at Gretsch during World War II....