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Severiana Beserra
Mrs. Beserra died Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, at Genesis Medical Center, West Central Park, Davenport. Memorials may be made to the family. Vera Valdez was born Feb. 21, 1929, in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, the daughter of Juan and Julia Mandujuano Valdez. She arrived in East Moline in 1959 and married Frank Beserra on Nov. 26, 1960, in East Moline. He died Aug. 27, 1980. She and her husband owned and operated The Latin Village Restaurant, East Moline, for more than 50 years until their death. Survivors include her daughter, Connie (Mauricio) Escarria, East Moline; grandson, Mauricio Michael Escarria; sisters, Maria Guerrero, San Antonio, Texas, Porfiria Valdez and Ursula Valdez, Nuevo Laredo, and Socorro "Coco" Tristan, East Moline; many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, three infant siblings, three adult sisters and three adult brothers. Online condolences my be left for the family at www.vanhoe.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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