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Elizabeth 'Betty' Holmstrom Drefchinski
A memorial service celebrating her life will be held at 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 9, at First Lutheran Church, Geneseo. The Rev. Dr. Arthur Bergren will officiate. Visitation for Betty will be 1-3 p.m. Sunday at the church. Per her requests, cremation rites have been accorded, and inurnment will be at a later date. Memorials may be left to Ovarian Cancer Research or First Lutheran Church, Geneseo. Betty also would like all women to be more aware of ovarian cancer which is a silent killer. Vandemore Funeral Homes and Cremation Services, Geneseo, is assisting the family with arrangements. Elizabeth Jane Peterson was born Feb. 5, 1943, in Moline, the daughter of Wilbur M. and Elizabeth J. Harsha Peterson. She graduated from Orion High School in 1961 and started work at John Deere & Co. in Moline immediately after. She quit work to marry Roy Holmstrom in April 1963. They had three children and later divorced. She was married to Michael Drefchinski in June 2005. Betty worked for several years at Family Medical in Geneseo and then at John Deere Health in Moline, from which she retired in 2006. She later worked part-time at Guzzardo's Hallmark store in Geneseo. She was a member of First Lutheran Church in Geneseo and belonged to a Bible study group there. She loved living in the country most of her life, and when she was a child she enjoyed hunting and fishing with her father and riding her horse. Her family and grandchildren meant everything to her. She loved attending as many of their activities as she could. She and Mike loved to travel to California and Yosemite National Park and to visit their children in Albuquerque, N.M., and the Atlanta, Ga., area. Betty is survived by her husband Mike; two sons, Tim (Sherry) Holmstrom, Atkinson and Chris(Cyrena) Holmstrom, Canton, Ga; a daughter, Angela (Scott) Himmelman, Geneseo; two stepdaughters, Michelle Kurth, North Carolina, and Suzanne Drefchinski, Albuquerque, N.M.; eight grandchildren, Christopher Bisom and Shane and Autumn Holmstrom, Atkinson, Nicholas and Brooke Holmstrom, Georgia, Drew, Sydney and Hannah Himmelman, Geneseo; two stepgrandchildren, Joshua Kurth and Nick Drefchinski; one niece; and one nephew. Betty was preceded in death by her grandparents; parents; sister, Shirley Thompson; brother, Forrest Peterson; and stepdaughter, Amanda Martinez. Share a message of sympathy with Betty's family at www.vandemorefuneralhome.com. 
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Today is Saturday, May 25, the 145th day of 2013. There are 220 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: The annual review of the fire department of this city took placeyesterday and made a fine showing with machines and hose carts in tip-top order.
1888 -- 125 years ago: Last night's prayer meeting at Central Presbyterian Church wascalled off due to water in the basement, residue of last week's flood.
1913 -- 100 years ago: The junior class of Rock Island High School will hold a riverexcursion on the steamer St. Paul next Tuesday.
1938 -- 75 years ago: The 75th Anniversary of the Rock Island Arsenal today finds thenation's largest ordinance manufacturing plant filling many important orders for the army.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Miss Patrice Daly, Rock Island, a senior at Rock Island HighSchool, won second place in the recent state public speaking contest held in Peoria underthe auspices of the Knights of Pythias.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Hampton's sesquicentennial committee and the Hampton HistoricalSociety have scheduled a full slate of activities, which will be held throughout the year, to celebrate the village's 150th birthday. The first celebration will be the Memorial Dayprogram at 10 a.m. May 30, at the Brettun and Black Store Museum on River Road. Therewill be a sesquicentennial display.
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