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Alice DeWitte
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, at Our Lady of Guadalupe in Silvis. Visitation will be from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday with a rosary preceding at 10 a.m. at Gibson-Bode Funeral Home, Port Byron. Burial will be at the St. John's Catholic Cemetery, Rapids City. Memorials may be made to the Crosstown Square Activities Fund, Silvis. Alice was born April 23, 1911, in East Moline, the daughter of Leonard and Romanie Theunick DeRuytter. She married Emile J. DeWitte on Jan. 21, 1931, in Rapids City. Alice helped her husband farm and was a homemaker. She was a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, Silvis. She was always very meticulous. Her hobbies included embroidery, cooking, baking and gardening, and in her later years she enjoyed jig saw puzzles. Alice was also a dedicated volunteer at Crosstown Square during her years as a resident there. She is survived by her three daughters and their husbands, Dorothy and Jerry Guinn, East Moline, Joann and Ronald Bolk, Port Byron, and Joyce and Michael Bush, Port Byron; and a granddaughter, Cynthia Guinn, East Moline. Alice was preceded in death by her husband, Emile in 1996; sisters, Marie Hoste and Emma Deopere; and a brother, Frank DeRuytter. Share a memory or condolence at www.gibsonbodefh.com. 
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Today is Saturday, May 18, the 138th day of 2013. There are 227 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: A large variety of children's wagons and gigs have arrived in thecity and are being sold at war prices.
1888 -- 125 years ago: All Rock Island retail houses, with the exception of a clothingstore and a jewelry store, have agreed to early closing hours during the summer months.The store will be closed at 8 p.m.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Baseball enthusiasts in Rock Island are attempting to raise$20,000 to keep the Island City Park open, despite the fact that the city has no franchise inorganized baseball this year.
1938 -- 75 years ago: The organization of a third rural young people's unit will beundertaken tomorrow night at the Milan Presbyterian Church, with Mrs. Mildred K.Wellman, home advisor, and Robert Smith, county farm adviser in charge.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Deere & Co. will begin a "big switch" on its telephone systemMonday morning. The extension numbers of all 1,600 telephones on the firm's EastMoline and Moline exchanges will be changed Monday morning.
1988 -- 25 years ago: East Moline's June Jamboree VI -- Nostalgia Days, will seemlike a '60s revival with the appearance of stars like Bobby Vee, Freddie Cannon, PeterNoone, Turtles, The Grass Roots and Lou Christie. This year's festival has beenexpanded to five days, June 22-26, at the Northeast Park complex.
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