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Beverly Gloe
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Beverly J. Gloe, 75, of Moline, passed away on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, at Genesis Medical Center, Illini Campus, Silvis. Private family visitation will be held at DeRoo Funeral Home, Moline, Friday, Nov. 30, with private funeral services celebrated at 10 a.m. Entombment will be in St. Mary's Mausoleum, East Moline. Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Beverly was born on June 28, 1937, in Moline, the daughter of William H. and Margaret M. DeTaeye Shepherd. She married William Floyd Gloe on Nov. 15, 1958, in Rock Island. She had been a member of Sacred Heart Church, Moline. Beverly was a 1958 graduate of the former Moline Public Hospital School of Nursing. She was employed as a registered nurse at the Center for Alcohol & Drug Services, Rock Island, retiring in 2001. Beverly enjoyed traveling, particularly to London, Paris and Alaska. She loved her grandchildren and family and decorating for the holidays. Survivors include her husband, William; daughters and son-in-law, Karen and Tom Coats, Bettendorf, and Stephanie Gloe, Davenport; son, Gregg Gloe, Moline; sister, Rosemary Patricia Olson, Moline; brother and sister-in-law, Harley and Jean Shepherd, Rockford, Ill.; grandchildren, Samantha Szuma-Gloe, Silvis, and Alex and Katharine Coats, Bettendorf. She was preceded in death by her parents; and sister, Arlene Gaertnier. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.deroofuneralhome.com. 
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Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: The Rt. Rev. Harry I. Witherspoon, D.D. Bishop of Illinois, willpreach in Trinity (Episcopal) Church, in this city this evening.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Mississippi River flooded itsbanks at Rock Island, destroying the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber companyand damaging the Lumber Company and arsenal power plant. Total loss isestimated at $100.000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of South Rock Island township are circulating a petitionfavoring the annexation of that area to the city of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Mrs. Thomas Ackles, of Rock Island, has been elected president ofthe Playcrafters for the next season. She succeeds Warren Leonard.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Some 8,000 people filed through the gates of Rock Island Arsenal on Saturday to view a display of a part of the nation's armed strength. The occasion was theannual observance of Armed Forces Day.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Willis Kuschmann, of Moline, who already has won his laurels as oneof the most artistic men in the Quad-Cities area, has a new hobby. He is deeply involvedin miniature railroading. At the age of 88, when many other seniors are dozing in theirchairs or sitting before the television, Mr. Kuschmann is planning and working on hiscollection.
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