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Alonzo Fortin Jr.
Services are 10 a.m. Monday in the Celebration of Life Chapel at Trimble Funeral and Cremation Center, Moline, with the Rev. Don Knowles officiating. Burial is at Greenview Memorial Gardens, East Moline, where Moline American Legion Post 246 will present military honors. Visitation is 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Calvary Lutheran Church, Moline, or Honor Flight of the Quad Cities. Alonzo Phillias Fortin was born Jan. 27, 1932, in Brockton, Mass., the son of Alonzo Sr. and Mildred Reed Fortin. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Al married Betty Louise Duke on Dec. 24, 1953, in Etowah County, Ala., She died May 28, 2007. He married Gloria Warren Seuss, on March 7, 2009, in Moline. He was employed by the Department of Defense at the Rock Island Arsenal for 35 years, retiring as a small-weapons expert in 1987. He was a member of Calvary Lutheran Church, Moline, Moline Lodge 1014, AF & AM, Scottish Rite Bodies, Valley of Moline, and American Legion Post 246, Moline. He enjoyed traveling, dancing, hunting, fishing, and playing cards, especially euchre, and loved playing with his grandchildren when they were little and his great-grandchildren. He was an avid Alabama, Nebraska and Iowa fan. Al is survived by his wife, Gloria; two children and their spouses, David and Debi Fortin and Cheryl and Michael Welch, all of Moline; five grandchildren and their spouses, Derek and Sara Fortin, Sarah and Uriah Thieme, Chad and Rebecca Tipsword, Ashley Welch, and Shawn Welch and his fiancee Roxy Reed; six great-grandchildren; three stepsons and their wives, Charles and Lola Tanner, Guam, and Kevin and Shirley Tanner and Scott and Julie Tanner, all of Rock Island; four stepgrandchildren, James and Teena Tanner, Bradley Tanner, Deannea Tanner, and Stephanie Tanner; and two stepgreat-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Betty; his parents; and a brother, Robert Fortin. Al's family invites friends to share stories and condolences and light a candle in his memory at www.TrimbleFuneralHomes.com. 
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Today is Thursday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2013. There are 222 days left in the year.
1863 — 150 years ago: Messrs. J. and M. Rosenfield have moved their leather and hidestore to the building formerly occupied by Temple Bufords's store. They buy and sellhides, pelts, furs, wool, beeswax, lard, tallow, etc.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The Rock Island Lumber Company has recovered 5,000 of the8,000 logs that were carried away by the Mississippi River flood last week.
1913 -- 100 years ago: John J. Ullemeyer has been awarded the contract to furnish RockIsland fire and police department members with uniforms, at the city's expense.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Work on Aledo's new $38,000 swimming pool was started thismorning at South Park when ground for the pool was broken by Mayor John W. Murphy.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Students and teacher at Moline High School called today "MissLeona Day" day at the school in honor of the government teacher who retires at theend of the school term. Although she's been teaching for 43 years at the school, Miss Dayfound a new way of arriving at the school this morning. At 7:30 a.m., a police squad carpulled up in front of Miss Day's home and escorted her to school. A caravan of students' cars joined the procession along the way.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Barbecue cooking and riverfront antics are planned for Discover the
River Day Saturday in Leach Park, Bettendorf. A 5K run, wind surfing, a canoe race, hogcalling and more will round out the day under the Interstate 74 bridge.
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