Carolyn Corbitt Drexler, 69, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, died Thursday, July 8, 2021, at Atrium Navicent Health, in Macon, Georgia.
A Rosary service will be held 6 PM, Saturday, July 10, 2021, at The Paulk Funeral Home in Fitzgerald, Georgia. The family will receive friends following the Rosary until 8 PM. A Memorial Mass will be celebrated Wednesday, July 21, 2021 at St. Williams Catholic Church in Fitzgerald, Georgia, celebrated by Father Paulinus Okpala and Father Paul O'Connell. Interment will be private.
Mrs. Drexler was born January 27, 1952, in Sycamore, Georgia, to the late John & Lois Scongers Corbitt. She lived in the community all of her life and spent her entire working career in the medical field. Mrs. Drexler was highly educated, obtaining degrees from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Emory University and Valdosta State. She was one of two people elected President of the Georgia Health Information Organization. She was Vice President and supervised the medical records department at Dorminy Medical Center and Tift General Hospital. Mrs. Drexler taught transcription at the Vo-Tech College and hired some of the students she taught to work for her at Tift General. Mrs. Drexler and a partner formed a company called Medical Correspondence that called for traveling the southeast copying medical records for hospitals and doctors. Later the company was purchased. She retired for the second time only for four months. She then started traveling all over the country installing the electronic medical records in hospitals and doctors’ offices. Mrs. Drexler was considered an expert in this field and maintained a long list of hospitals that wanted her services. She felt the most rewarding thing about her work was seeing her employees succeed. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Mrs. Drexler was treasurer of the Southeast KIKO Goat Association. Mrs. Drexler was a member of St. Theresa Catholic Church in Cordele, Georgia.
She is survived by her husband of 37 years, Deacon Ed Drexler; his children: Elizabeth Allison and Jay Drexler; grandchildren: Rebecca Allison and Ben Allison; great-grandchild, Trey Edward Allison and special friends: Becky Mann and Lisa Cox along with many other friends and classmates. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Alan Corbitt as well as many aunts and uncles.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations be made to your favorite charity.