Obituaries for May 15, 2013
Robert Lenertz   May 16, 2013
Genevieve Kress   May 16, 2013
Harold Goettsch   May 16, 2013
Marie Vetter   May 16, 2013
Ella Green   May 16, 2013
Madlyn David  May 16, 2013
Joan Bennett   May 16, 2013
Archie Weinert   May 16, 2013
Marvin Salmonson   May 16, 2013
Helen Boyles   May 16, 2013
Raymond 'Ray' Welvaert   May 16, 2013
Ralph Harker Jr.  May 16, 2013
Danial Baird  May 16, 2013
Elizabeth 'Betty' VanEarwage   May 16, 2013
Robert 'Bob' Huneke   May 16, 2013
Glen Suiter   May 15, 2013
Ken Chumbley   May 15, 2013
Marie Vetter  May 15, 2013
Robert Karjala   May 15, 2013
Jerry Gustafson   May 15, 2013
Ella Green  May 15, 2013
Ruth Doonan Bulfinch   May 15, 2013
Helen Boyles  May 15, 2013
Beverly Standgard  May 15, 2013
Susan Slivken   May 15, 2013
JoAnn Peters   May 15, 2013
Donald Love   May 15, 2013
Beverly Baird   May 15, 2013
Elizabeth VanEarwage   May 15, 2013
Makenna Bartel-Heaney   May 15, 2013
David VanArnam   May 15, 2013
Robert Huneke  May 15, 2013



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  Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.




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