MANHATTAN, IL \u2014 Services have been set for the owner of a Momence bar slain Monday in a robbery at the business. <\/p>\n
Courtney Drysdale, 30, is being remembered as a loving mother and proud business owner known for her warmth and kind heart<\/a>, her obituary reads. Drysdale was fatally shot Monday as she was opening The Line, a bar she had owned for four years and at which she had worked for nine years, family wrote. A suspect in her slaying was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon<\/a>. <\/p>\n “She took pride in her establishment,” her obituary reads, “and enjoyed the company of all who came there.” <\/p>\n Drysdale was born in Oak Lawn to Glenn Novotny and Dawn Drysdale. Her mother precedes her in death. She is survived by her beloved daughter, Aubrey Drysdale; fianc\u00e9 of 5 years, Neil Trudeau; father, Glenn Novotny; brothers, James (Trista Hodges) Drysdale and Robert (Anna) Novotny; grandmother of her daughter, Beth Stokes; as well as many great family and friends, her obituary reads. <\/p>\n Visitation will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at Jensen Funeral Home, 3639 EAST State Route 17,Kankakee from 3 p.m. until the funeral service at 7 p.m. with Deacon Pat Skelly officiating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, IL \u2014 Services have been set for the owner of a Momence bar slain Monday in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-123048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}