GIRLS' STATE TRACK AND FIELD UPDATES

Cynthia Gosa


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Posted Online: Jan. 03, 2013, 6:57 pm
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Cynthia "Cindy" Gosa, 50, Vernon, Ala., died Jan. 2, 2013, at the DCH Regional Medical Center, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Services are 8 p.m. Friday at Norwood Funeral Home, Sulligent, Ala., with visitation 4 to 7:45 p.m.
She was born April 22, 1962, to Robert Sr. and Doris Teague Johnson.
She was a member of the Pentecostal Church.
Surviving are her husband, Tom Gosa Jr.; children, Tanya VanWinkle and Christopher VanWinkle, both of Moline; seven grandchildren; stepdaughters, Tara and Samantha Dixon, both of Davenport; sisters, Linda Evans and Dorothy Ross, both of Chesnee, S.C.; and a brother: Robert Johnson Jr., Spartanburg, S.C.














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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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