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Francis DeMay
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Francis A. "Mule" or "Woodchopper" DeMay, 74, of Prophetstown, died Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012, at his home surrounded by his family at his bedside. A gathering of friends and family will take place on Saturday, Dec. 29, from noon to 3 p.m. at the McDonald Funeral Home, 46 Grove St., Route 78 North, Prophetstown. Memorials in his memory to Gaffey Home Care and Hospice would be appreciated. He was born on Oct. 7, 1938, in Annawan, the son of Peter Sabastian and Louise Elizabeth Specht DeMay and was a 1956 graduate of Annawan High School. He married Beverly Ann Evans on Feb. 13, 1960, in St. Malachy Catholic Church in Geneseo. Throughout his working career he worked at John Deere East Moline for 13 years; worked for West Bend Company for six years selling cookware; had worked for his brother-in-law, Dave Hansen, at his gas station for two years; had worked at Micro Gear in Prophetstown for two years; and then worked at Northwestern Steel and Wire Co. in Sterling for 26 years. He helped many farmers in Fort Dodge, Iowa, and Gordon Francis in Prophetstown through the years, retiring after suffering a heart attack. In his retirement he owned and operated F & B Bait and Tackle in Prophetstown for seven years. He was an avid fisherman and loved camping, cutting and selling firewood and being with friends, quick to tell a funny or B.S. story. Surviving are his wife, Beverly; two sons, Ronald (Dee) DeMay, Prophetstown, and Randall DeMay, Sterling; his brothers, George (Berneice) DeMay, Kewanee, and Paul DeMay, Cambridge; his sisters, Dorothy Wolf, Annawan, Alice (Dave) Hansen, Prophetstown, Catherine (Ronald) Vincent, Kewanee, Theresa (Mike) Echelberger, Springfield, Ohio; three grandchildren, Christina DeMay, Prophetstown, Cory DeMay, Prophetstown, Curt DeMay, Prophetstown; two great-grandchildren, Aiden Lanphere and Alaina Crump. He was preceded in death by his parents; and his brother, Raymond DeMay. 
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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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