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Augusta 'Gustie' Stewart
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at Gibson-Bode Funeral Home, Port Byron. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Burial will be at the Clinton Lawn Cemetery, Clinton, Iowa. Memorials may be made to Bethel Baptist Church, Port Byron. Augusta was born Nov. 23, 1915, in Coe Township, Hillsdale, the daughter of Charles and Virginia Huyvaert Kessler. She married Merle D. Stewart on Aug. 23, 1947, in Hampton. He preceded her in death in 1999. She attended Bethel Baptist Church, rural Port Byron. Gustie enjoyed volunteering at the Project Now meal site, sewing and knitting for the church, and baking and making homemade donuts, peanut brittle and peanut clusters. In her earlier years she and her husband enjoyed farming, dancing and traveling. Survivors include her nieces and nephews, Shirley and Vern Winter, Rock Island, Donetta Wainwright, Port Byron, Paulette and Steve Ziegler, Port Byron, Jim and Mary Lu Stewart, Port Byron; great-nieces and -nephews, Craig and Robin Wainwright, Port Byron, Kirk and Beth Wainwright, Hillsdale, and Kristie Sorensen, Port Byron; and special cousin, Louise (Huyvaert) Stritesky, East Moline. She was preceded in death by her husband; and a brother, Richard Kessler. Share a memory or condolence at www.gibsonbodefh.com. 
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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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