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C. Robert Youngstrom
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 29, at the Galva Chapel of Stackhouse-Moore Funeral Services. The Rev. Dan Wright will officiate. Burial will be at the Galva Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Henry County Fair Association or the American Cancer Society. Carl Robert Youngstrom was born Oct. 27, 1921, in Andover Township, Henry County, the son of Carl O. and Anna J. Johnson Youngstrom. He was educated in Victoria schools. His marriage to Betty L. Moline took place on Jan. 29, 1944, in Galesburg. She passed away April 28, 2007. He was a farmer in the Knoxville, Galva and Bishop Hill areas. Bob also worked at Kewanee Boiler for 18 years, retiring in 1983. He retired from farming in 1992 and then moved to Cambridge. Bob had a love for horses and raised, trained and broke Belgian horses. He used to enjoy providing horse-drawn wagons for various festivals in the Bishop Hill area. Those surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, Kent and Sue Youngstrom, Cambridge; a daughter and son-in-law, Trudy and Mike Whittington, Geneseo; three grandchildren, Tracy (Joe) Powell, Trent Youngstrom, Dalton Whittington; and four great-granddaughters, Kaitlyn and Ashlyn Powell and Kaylee and Aubrey Youngstrom. Other survivors include a sister, Helen Ross, Denver, Colo.; and several nieces and nephews. His parents; a son, Daryl Youngstrom; and three sisters, Gladys Quanstrom, Marian Duff and Verna Scott, preceded him in death. A video tribute may be viewed and condolences expressed by visiting Robert's obituary at www.stackhousemoore.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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